Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Ballynakill (Kilkenny West By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakill (Kilkenny West By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ballynakill Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballynakill Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.49624, -7.87456
- SMR number
- WM022-006----
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5 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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Sited on a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture. Ballynakill Castle described in 1979 as the ruins of a rectangular tower house standing two storeys high of which only the SE (approx. L 9m) and SW (approx. L 6m; H 6-7m) walls survive upstanding. The walls are constructed of limestone with a prominent base batter visible. The facing stones of the batter and the quoins have been robbed out. The interior of the castle is covered and used as a cattle shed. The remains of barrel vaulting can be seen over the ground and first floor levels. A pile of stones lie to S of the castle ruins. The remains of a probable bawn wall (WM022-006001-) adjoin to SW.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 15 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.