Castle

No surface remains visible of a castle in Saggart that was situated on a gentle rise on land sloping to the NW. Castle building demolished in 1972, with modern house now standing on the site of the castle. One of three castles in Saggart mentioned in the 1654-56 Civil Survey of Dublin (Simington 1945, 290). The Down Survey map of Newcastle Barony shows the settlement (DU021-034----) at Saggart clustered around two castles (DU021-034010-/014-) depicted as tower house type structures and a third ruinous castle annotated 'stump of a Castle' (DU021-034011- ) (Hibernia Reg.). The terrier of the Down Survey map of Saggart Parish recorded that in Saggart there are 'two Castles in repaire and one Stump of a Castle with some Thatcht Houses and Cabbins' (NLI Ms. 714). NLI, Ms. 714 National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey for the County of Dublin by W. Petty (1657). Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 42 maps with accompanying terriers, copied in 1786-7. See attached Down Survey map of Newcastle Barony courtesy of The Library of Trinity College Dublin Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 24 March 2023

A local castle; wider significance not recorded.