Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballysax Great,ballysax Little, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballysax Great,ballysax Little
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KD028-083----
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The National Monuments Service's description
OMURETHI (1909-11, 96) quotes from an Inquisition taken at Carlow in 1307 that Roger le Bigod held, 'At Ballysax, a tower in bad condition and ruinous, and a small, wooden grange, covered with straw ...'. He also quotes from a later Inquisition taken at Naas in 1542 ( ibid. 97) which refers to a castle in Ballysax. The precise location of the castle is unknown, but it may have stood on or in the vicinity of a possible motte (KD028-031----).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 13 February 2013
References
Omurethi 1909-11 Ballysax and the Nangle family. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 6, 96-100.