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Castle - tower house

Richardstown, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Richardstown, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Richardstown
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Richardstown Castle (in Ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Richardstown Castle (Site of)
Coordinates
53.31299, -6.66844
SMR number
KD014-012----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Recorded in the OSL (Herity 2002, 26 (75)) as '… an old Castle … which is, according to the Namebook, "A square building about sixty feet in height"'. At the top of a long and very gentle S-facing pasture slope. A slightly raised, rectangular area (dims. L 16.8m E-W; Wth 10m; H 0.5m) of grassed-over, collapsed stone carries a small segment of 'in situ' mortared wall core (dims. L 1.8m E-W; T 1m; H 1.5m) from which the inner and outer facing stones have been robbed, and, 3m to the W, two similar but collapsed portions of wall core, one of which has inner and outer facing stones intact (wall T 1.2m).

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

References

Herity, M. (ed.) 2002 Ordnance Survey Letters Kildare. Dublin. Four Masters Press.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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