What is recorded here

Old Castle stood south of Kevin Street Upper and west of Cabbage Garden Lane, an L-shaped stronghold with a strange attached house and formal garden. It belonged to the world of St Patrick's Cathedral and the Chancellors Manse, yet it lay outside the parish of St Kevin. The castle resisted easy classification because it was both domestic and defensive, ancient and inhabited, visible on Rocque's map but absent from the modern street.

Annotated 'Old Castle' on Rocque's 1756 Map of Dublin where it is shown standing to the S of a row of houses fronting onto the S side of Kevin Street upper and to the W of Cabbage Garden Lane. On this map the 'Old Castle' is depicted as a large roughly L-shaped building with U-Shape or half H-Plan house attached to the SW angle of the castle with formal garden to S. This U-plan structure may have been a 17th century house attached to the Old Castle. Known as the Chancellors Manse this building was located S of St Patrick's Cathedral (Bradley and King 1987, 1, 27). It was still standing as a ruin in the early 19th century. An Inquisition of 1546 described it as a castle lying outside the precincts of the parish of St Kevin (Mason 1819, 16; Clarke 2002, 29, J5). There are no visible surface remains. See attached section of Rocque's 1756 Map of Dublin showing the 'Old Castle' to the S of Kevin Street Upper and to the W of Cabbage Garden Lane (now Cathedral Lane). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 13 December 2022

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