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The Civil survey (1654-6) describes a castle with a stone house adjoining a stone bawn at Clontarf (Simington 1945, 176). Rocque's map (1760) shows a large rectangular bawn with circular bastions at the NW and NE angles, which was demolished in 1837.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU019-014003

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Photo credits
  • Architecture of Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Hugh Frazer, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Maker not stated on source page, anakena.de
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.irishmirror.ie
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