Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fortification
MacReddin West, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- MacReddin West
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carysfort Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.88436, -6.33223
- SMR number
- WI034-010001-
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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 on a gentle S-facing slope. Built by the Viceroy, William Cary, after 1628, and taken by the Confederates in 1641, after which it was allowed to fall into ruin. All that survives is part of a possible wall (L 5m; H 3m) to the SW of St Brigid's church in the modern graveyard. The field in which it stood is still called the 'castle field'. Part of Carysfort medieval borough (WI034-010----). (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 283).
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
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.