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Castle - unclassified

Gorteenvacan, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Gorteenvacan, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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