Castle - tower house

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated within the graveyard (WI005-070005-), on the edge of Blessington Reservoir and being undermined by periodic rises in the water level. A four-storey tower house of uncoursed rubble with dressed granite quoins (int. dims. 4.65m E-W x 5.05m N-S; max. H 8m), of which only the N and W walls survive. Wooden floors were supported on granite corbels. There is a two-centred arch over the doorway in the W wall, lintelled windows at first- and third-floor level, and a round-arched window at second-floor level. Described in the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1928, 105) as being in ruins. Fitzgerald (1913-16, 395-6) noted a stairs in the SE corner. Part of the medieval borough of Burgage More (WI005-070----).

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

References

FitzGerald, Lord W. 1913-16 Burgage churchyard. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland 9, 395-7.

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1928 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Wicklow collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.