Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Dovecote
Bolton, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bolton
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.95575, -6.82223
- SMR number
- KD038-019002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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
A fifteenth century tower house (KD038-019001-), rectangular in plan with a square projecting turret at the SE corner. the tower house is now incorporated into an eighteenth century double-gabled house. The columbarium with a barrel vault and a later pigeon loft immediately to the S of the tower house is probably a modified bawn turret.
Date of upload: 15 September 2016
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 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.