Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Kilberry, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilberry
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castlerady
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castleready (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.03707, -7.02302
- SMR number
- KD030-004001-
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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 rise, in tillage, and standing on the E limits of a possible bawn (KD030-004001-). According to Carroll (1892, 111), Castlereedy Castle was held by the Le Rede family in the 14th-century. The very poorly preserved ivy-clad, remains of portions of the W, N and E walls (av. T 1.3m) of a rectangular structure (traceable 12m N-S; 8m E-W), built of unbattered rubble limestone masonry. The walls generally only survive to first floor-level, except at the NW angle where a small projecting garderobe tower survives to three storeys, and was accessed via an intra mural stairs in the N gable wall. The scar lines of a stone vaulted ceiling over ground floor-level survive in the E and W sidewalls, which each contain a splayed loop. The S gable wall is down and several large piles of collapsed mortared masonry (one piece containing a right-angled mural passage) lie at this end of the building. Cleared field stone are also dumped on the site.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 18 September 2013
References
Carroll, The Rev. J. 1892 Remains in Athy and neighbourhood, Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 1, 102-112.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.