Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Gorteenvacan, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteenvacan
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Gorteen Mound
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gorteen Mound
- Coordinates
- 52.87888, -6.87327
- SMR number
- KD040-029----
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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
According to a lease of 1608 Richard Eustace was required to 'build the said castle of Gurtinavackan substantially with lime and stoane, a story height above the vault, with a battlement, and a slate roof ... and make a stoane walle round about the towne and make a strong gate of oak timber and boords' (FitzGerald 1915-17, 161). It is shown on the 1907 OS 6-inch map as a circular mound, where the castle was built. There is a cropmark of a rectangular enclosure, probably a moated site, in an adjacent field to the S (KD040-030----).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
References
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1915-17. Richard Eustace, tenant of Gorteenvacan and Ballybyrne in the County Kildare, 1600 [note]. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 8, 161-2.
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.