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Castle - tower house

Kilmeage, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Kilmeage, 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
Kilmeage
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Kilmeage Castle
Latest-edition OS map
Kilmeage Castle (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.24833, -6.83816
SMR number
KD018-003----

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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

According to O'Grady (1904-5, 462-4), the castle was a stronghold of a branch of the Fitzgerald family, and is mentioned in 1553 and in 1650 when it was taken by Cromwellian troops under Hewson. O'Grady also reproduces a photograph taken c. 1900, entitled 'Remains of Kilmeague Castle' which shows a two-storied structure with traces of an almost destroyed third-floor, and a possible bawn wall. The castle was built of sandstone with randomly coursed, rubble masonry, and appears to have had a mural stairs. It stood at the foot of a S-facing, pasture slope with wet, marshy ground immediately to the S, but no upstanding remains survived in 1986 (SMR File). (Valkenburg 1970, 525)

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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