Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Bolton, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bolton
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Bolton Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bolton Castle
- Coordinates
- 52.95619, -6.82250
- SMR number
- KD038-019001-
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
A fifteenth century tower house, rectangular in plan with a square projecting turret at the SE corner. The original entrance was in the W wall. There are three floors over a barrel vault, with access to upper floors and to the wall walks by a mural stairs in W wall. There is a garderobe in the SE corner of the first floor, and crenelated battlements on the roof. The tower house is now incorporated into an eighteenth century double-gabled house. The columbarium (KD038-019002-) with a barrel vault and a later pigeon loft immediately to to the S of the tower house is probably a modified bawn turret.
Nearby in the register
- Dovecoteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.