What is recorded here

Milltown castle stands in County Wicklow, a sixty-six-foot rectangle beside a nine-foot round tower with six loopholes. The east end still rises twenty-six feet while the north wall has collapsed, leaving a broken shadow across the townland. It may have been an Elizabethan house rather than an Anglo Norman castle, but the chambered stone and narrow window suggest people once watched the land from that height.

'Milltown castle, as it is called, stands in the townland of Milltown; measuring sixty-six feet in length by eighteen in breadth. The east end, about twenty six feet high remains, with a breach extending from the top half down, and the south wall remains entire to the height of about eighteen feet. The north wall and west gable are down. There is a round tower at the south west angle, nine feet diameter, the walls three feet thick and about twenty eight feet high, having six loopholes, with a window on the south side about six feet high, two feet broad and fifteen feet from the ground.' (OS Letters, 250). There is a round tower at the south west angle, nine feet diameter, the walls three feet thick and about twenty eight feet high, having six loopholes, with a window on the south side about six feet high, two feet broad and fifteen feet from the ground. This cannot be one of the Anglo Norman castle but one of the Elizabethan houses probably" (Corlett & Medlycott 2001, 79). Date of upload: 22 October 2012

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