What is recorded here

Belgard Castle is a three-story tower house on a low Dublin hill, its north-west angle swallowed by an 18th-century mansion. Talbot families lived beside it from the 1500s to the 1600s, watching through slit loops while tight stone courses held the slope. The later battlements decorate rather than defend, turning a military warning into a domestic fantasy.

Located on the N side of a low hill, midway down the slope. The NW angle of a tower house is incorporated into an 18th-century mansion. This tower house was associated with the Talbot family from the 15th to the 17th century. It rises to three stories with later 18th-century battlements added. Built of tightly coursed masonry with dressed quoins and lit by slit loops. The interior is not currently accessible (Ball 1899, 98; Handcock 1899, 54-6). Compiled by Geraldine Stout

Belgard Castle was held by the Talbot family from the 15th to the 17th century. It is remembered for its incorporation into an 18th-century mansion and as a surviving example of medieval tower house architecture in the region.

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