What is recorded here

Castle, Newcastle South stands as a square two-storey tower house in County Dublin, built from regular limestone blocks and marked by a stair turret at the north-west angle. Its west wall hides a pointed doorway with bar-bolt holes, while the interior reveals a vaulted ground floor, narrow slit windows, and wall presses that suggest domestic life rather than pure defence. The building remains a compact urban stronghold where stone, light and human habit still meet.

This is a square, urban tower house with a stair turret at the NW angle. It is two storeys high and is built of coursed regular limestone blocks with dressed quoins. It is entered through a pointed doorway in the W wall which contains a door rebate and bar-bolt holes. There is a vault over ground floor with traces of wicker-work centring. The interior is lit by slit opes on the W and S walls and a large rectangular opening in S wall. Wall presses are present in the S wall and NE corner of interior (dims. L 4.5m; Wth 1.03m; see Anon 1914, 275-6; Mc Dix 1898, 85). DU020-003007_01/02 Photographs courtesy of Rocshot.com/Rob O'Connor, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/10690, © South Dublin Libraries - Local Studies DU020-003007_03 Photograph courtesy of Tomás Maher, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/4229 © South Dublin Libraries - Local Studies Compiled by Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 25 January 2023

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