Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - fortified house
Castlereban North, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlereban North
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03028, -7.03525
- SMR number
- KD030-008001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 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
Incorporated into an earlier castle (KD030-008----), the ivy-clad S end (S and W walls) of a 17th-fortified house project W from the SW angle of the earlier structure. The S wall (L 5.8m E-W) survives to three stories (and extends E over the S wall of the castle) with large hood-moulded, mullioned and transommed windows on each floor, while the three-storied W wall (L 5.2m N-S) is reduced to one story at its present N end where a modern N wall is inserted to make a lean-to shed, with a large double-door at the S end of the W wall, which is inaccessible. A later (18th/19th-century?), single-storied, rectangular building (ext. dims. L 14.2m E-W; Wth 6.2m N-S; wall T 1m) abuts the S end of the castle and has a doorway in the S wall and a modern double-doorway in the W wall, above which is a carved stone bearing a jolly-looking, wigged creature. Traces of a fosse c. 40m to WSW noted in 1987 (SMR file) are no longer visible at ground-level.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 30 September 2013
Nearby in the register
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Knights Hospitallersunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.