Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Rathasker, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathasker
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.19749, -6.68720
- SMR number
- KD024-001002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In an enclosure (KD024-001001-) and visible as the foundations of a rectangular structure (SMR file). Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (KD024-001001-) or bawn visible in aerial photographs, no visible remains of castle building (Digital Globe). In 1837 according to the OSL (Herity 2002, 59 (173)), ‘In Rathascar T.L. are the ruins of a castle standing in the centre of a Fort or Mound’ [KD024-001001-]. Both monuments were levelled in 1984, but subsurface remains may survive.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 12 May 2016
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 9/1971).
References
Herity, M. (ed.) 2002 Ordnance Survey Letters Kildare. Dublin. Four Masters Press.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.