Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Boystown Or Baltyboys Lower, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boystown Or Baltyboys Lower
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13677, -6.53224
- SMR number
- WI010-004----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Listed as an 'earthwork' in the SMR (1986). Not listed in the RMP (1995). The Ordnance Survey Namebook (1838) refers to 'A pile of castle in a fir plantation 992 above low water mark'.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 14 December 2012
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.