What is recorded here

Castle (in ruins), Irishtown (uppercross By.) stands as a two-storey western turret, the last visible fragment of a towerhouse buried inside a modern housing estate. Patrick Browne and his wife agreed in 1601 to build a castle on those lands, and the place remained large enough to be called habitable when surveyed decades later. The turret still has lintelled entrances and plain square openings, while the rest has vanished under roofs and streets.

Situated on flat ground in the middle of a housing estate. The W corner turret is all that survives of this towerhouse. It rises to two storeys. Built of roughly coursed masonry with dressed quoins. There is a lintelled entrance on E side at ground level and first floor (int. dims. L 3.4m; Wth 3m). The S side of the tower is lit by plain square opes. According to the Exchequer Inquisitions for County Dublin, it was agreed in 1601 that Alderman Patrick Browne and his wife should build a castle on the lands of Irishtown (Ball 1906, 87). This building is marked on the Down Survey (1655-6) map. The Civil Survey 1654-55 describes this building as a habitable house (Simington 1945, 292). A drawing by Beranger dated 1772 shows a twin gabled towerhouse (Harbison 1998, 30-31). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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