Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Castleruddery Lower, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleruddery Lower
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castleruddery
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castleruddery (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.99230, -6.64912
- SMR number
- WI021-025----
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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
On level ground on the summit of a flat-topped ridge. Listed as ‘Castle, possible, site’ in the RMP (1995). Described in the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1928, 91) as a former castle ‘where Castleruddery House stands’. Not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 5 December 2012
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.