Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barracks
Drumgoff, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumgoff
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Drumgoff Bks.
- Coordinates
- 52.95544, -6.35691
- SMR number
- WI029-017----
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (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
A now unroofed three story structure (L c. 38m; Wth c. 7m) enclosed by an roughly square outer bawn wall with bastions at the NW and SE corners. Constructed c. 1800, in a strategic location overlooking the valley. It was one of a group of barracks built on the Military Road after the 1798 rising. It is reputed that Michael Dwyer laid siege to the barracks from the surrounding high ground on at least one occasion.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 19 July 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.