Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Grangecon Demesne, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grangecon Demesne
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grangecon Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grangecon Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.00813, -6.74712
- SMR number
- WI020-007----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated to the NE of Grangecon House. The remains consist of an ivy-covered portion of the W wall of the tower house, with a chimney stack and fireplace still extant. There is an armorial stone on the SW side, with two 'H's over a possible Freemason symbol, and the words 'ANOD 1610'. An inscribed stone from the castle read 'GODS STRENGTH IS MY DEFE..CE 1625' over three Freemason symbols but its present location is not known. The castle is described in the OS Letters as being in ruins (O'Flanagan 1928, 37).
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
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.
Nearby in the register
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.