Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Calverstown Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Calverstown Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07585, -6.79890
- SMR number
- KD032-047001-
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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
Incorporated into the N corner of a later, 17th-century house. A barrel-vaulted rectangular structure (int. 8.7m NNE-SSE; 3.6m ESE-WNW) is built of rubble masonry (wall T. 1.2m) without a base batter. A square-headed doorway at the N end of the ESE sidewall, currently giving access to the later building, may be original, while a wider doorway in the WNW sidewall appears to be a later insertion. There are traces of a blocked loop in the WNW side wall and also in the NNE gable wall.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 12 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.