Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Carnew, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carnew
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Carnew Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carnew Castle
- Coordinates
- 52.70939, -6.49971
- SMR number
- WI047-009----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on level ground with a gentle slope and extensive views to the S. A substantial 16th-century tower house now incorporated into a late 18th/early 19th-century Georgian Gothic house. The tower house consists of the main four-storey tower and a large adjoining angle tower with a turret, which forms one angle of the present building. The modern entrance, in the angle between the tower house and angle tower, is the original doorway into the original building itself, through a two-centred granite arch. There is another turret on the tower house at the NW corner. To the N of the entrance at second-floor level is a machicolation, while garderobe chutes are visible in the external face of the tower on the opposite side. It is still occupied.
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.