Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Glassely, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glassely
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KD031-031----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Shown on the Down Survey (1655-6) as a castle with a large gabled house attached. According to Fitzgerald (1912-14, 84), Glassealy is described in a 1540 extent [survey] of the Earl of Kildare’s forfeited estates in Leinster and Munster: 'There are in the town of Glassheley one Castle (Castrum) or strong-house (fortilagium)... .’ Its precise location is unknown, but it may have stood on the site, or in the vicinity, of the present Glassealy House.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 9 October 2013
References
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1912-14, Glassealy and its tenants. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 7, 82-117.