Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Kilkea Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkea Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilkea Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilkea Castle
- Coordinates
- 52.94323, -6.88685
- SMR number
- KD037-017002-
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5 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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
A composite structure consisting of a tower house at the SW corner, a gatehouse to the N and a central two-storey building running E-W between keep and gatehouse, with stair tower at E, adjacent to keep and central range. The exact date of construction is unknown, but the surviving features seem to indicate a fifteenth century date. Probably constructed after 1483 when the area was granted to the Fitzgeralds. It was garrisoned in 1552 during Baltinglass Revolution and occupied by Confederate forces in 1645-7 (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 154; JKAS 1891-5, 3). It was extensively restored in 1849, and is now used as a hotel. (Bradley et al. 1986 vol. 3, 270-79).
Nearby in the register
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
- Exhibitionist figureunder 1 mi
- Gatehouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.