Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Boleybeg (Gilltown ED), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boleybeg (Gilltown ED)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.11068, -6.65621
- SMR number
- KD029-018----
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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
On a slight pasture rise. According to Murphy (1896, 53), in a parliament held at Naas in 1472, the Abbot of Baltinglass requested that permission be given to Rowland Eustace, Lord Portlester, to build a £10-castle at 'Balablaght'. No castle is recorded in Ballybought townland, so the reference may be to the castle in the neighbouring townland of Boleybeg. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 6 September 2013
References
Murphy, Rev. D. 1896 The Pale, Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society, 2, 53
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.