Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Blackhall (newtown Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blackhall (newtown Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Blackhall Castle (in Ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Blackhall Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.18774, -6.60753
- SMR number
- KD024-011----
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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 a farm yard in level pasture. According to Tickell (1960, 370), the castle ‘was acquired by a William Eustace in 1535’, while O’Neill and Clarke (1954, 13, 1954, LXVII) say that Col. Edward Wogan lived there in the 17th century. A very poorly preserved and densely ivy clad, three storied, rectangular structure of which only the W wall (L c. 8m) and the W portion of the S wall (L c. 4m) survive. Built of thin flags, small blocks and roughly squared quoins, with a very slight base batter on the W wall. Three plain, flat-arched windows survive in the W wall; two at ground-floor and one at first-floor level. A modern single story, concrete shed is built against the S wall.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 11 June 2012
References
Tickell, E. F. 1960 The Eustace Family and their lands in County Kildare, Part 3. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 13, 364-413.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.