Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Moortowncastle, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moortowncastle
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle in Ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.10200, -6.79598
- SMR number
- KD028-047----
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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
At the foot of a long, gentle S-facing pasture slope. Recorded as a ruin on Taylor's 1783 Map of County Kildare. The very poorly preserved remains comprise the W wall of a tower house (8.6m N-S; wall T 1.5m) built of roughly coursed limestone rubble, without a base batter. The springing of a barrel vault (orientated N-S) is visible at first floor-level, and there is a double-splayed loop (Wth 0.7m) at ground floor level. A short length (2.4m E-W) of the attached S wall also survives, and its foundation course walling is traceable for a short distance (4m) towards the E.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 22 February 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.