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Castle - hall-house

Lackagh More, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - hall-house, Lackagh More, 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
Lackagh More
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lackagh Castle (in Ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Lackagh Castle (in Ruins), Souterrain
Coordinates
53.16145, -6.98891
SMR number
KD022-017----

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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

On level pasture, with a motte (KD022-016----) visible c. 150m to the W, and a church (KD022-018----) and graveyard (KD022-018001-) c. 35m to ENE, and (by association) the possible location of an early castle. The site consists of the very poorly preserved, L-shaped remains of a featureless, one-storied S-corner formed by SE and SW walls (int.dims. L 2.4m NE-SW; Wth 1.3m NW-SE; wall T 1.9m; ext.H 3.5m) built of thin, coursed flags with a very gentle base-batter. Traces of a N corner, 13.5m to NE, and slightly off-line to W, of the S corner, survive as a low, L-shaped mass of mortared masonry without facing-stones (int. dims. L 3.4m NW-SE; Wth 2.1m NE-SW; wall T max.3m; H 0.6-0.9m). Immediately to its S an inaccessible, short, narrow, rectangular, stone-built, subterranean passageway (int. dims. L 1.5m E-W; Wth 1.1m N-S) with a wicker-centered, pointed-arched vaulted roof appears to be a later feature. It is misidentified 'Souterrain' on the current edition (1939) of the OS 6-inch map. Traces of a fosse enclosing a possible bawn (KD022-017001-) to N noted in 1986 (SMR File) are no longer visible at ground level but a low scarp (H 0.8m) may mark its line. The site may have been a late 13th/14th century hall-keep and bawn?

Compiled by: Geaóid Conroy

Date of upload: 06 december 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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