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Castle in Garadice

Castle, tower house

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Located towards the top of a S-facing slope. The earliest reference to the castle is in a deed of 1598 where Gerald Wesley of Dangan leases ‘the castle or principal house… in Garris’ to Thomas Aish of Trym (Griffith 1991, 348). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Vallerian Weisly of Dangan (ME042-009----) owned 354…

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Located towards the top of a S-facing slope. The earliest reference to the castle is in a deed of 1598 where Gerald Wesley of Dangan leases ‘the castle or principal house… in Garris’ to Thomas Aish of Trym (Griffith 1991, 348). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Vallerian Weisly of Dangan (ME042-009----) owned 354 acres at Garreris in Gallow parish in 1640, and on the premises was ‘a castle’ (Simington 1940, 160). Only part of the circular N tower with fragments of stairs and lights survives together with a portion of the NE wall, but it had no vault. It had three floors as attested by the two-light windows on the NE wall, those at the ground and first floors under square hood-mouldings. A small crest (dims c. 0.4m x c. 0.3m) carved in false relief depicting three gorgets or crescents and a fess or horizontal bar is now in the garden of a nearby house. It has ‘Beati Pacilis’ (blessings of peace?) inscribed in a cursive script on a ribbon around a dove with an olive branch above the crest, which most resembles the arms of the Dillon family.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME049-002

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  • JP, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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