Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - fortified house
Usk, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Usk
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.06329, -6.75092
- SMR number
- KD032-020----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Shown on Noble and Keenan’s 1752 Map of County Kildare as a large house and also recorded by Taylor on his 1783 map of the county. In 1837, according to O’Conor (Herity 2002, 96 [28]) who co-compiled the OSL for County Kildare, ‘In the S.W. side of Usk townland are the ruins of a dwelling house called a Castle by the people.’ By the time the OS 25-inch map was drawn, the ‘Castle’ was recorded ‘Site of’, ie destroyed. It was possibly a fortified house rather than a tower house or castle proper. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 16 October 2013
References
Herity, M. (ed.) 2002 Ordnance Survey Letters Kildare. Dublin. Four Masters Press.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.