Overview
Grange Castle — Milltown is recorded as castle/fortified house in Dublin. Ruinous remains of detached multiple-bay three-storey over vaulted basement former tower house, remodelled c. 1750 by addition of two-bay two-storey domestic wing attached to the west, with large supporting wall buttresses to the south. All openings blocked in roughcast walls leading to partially roofless wallheads.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Earlier house, built c.1580, retains slender projecting square tower and garderobe.
People and work
The saved account records: Ruinous remains of detached multiple-bay three-storey over vaulted basement former tower house, remodelled c. 1750 by addition of two-bay two-storey domestic wing attached to the west, with large supporting wall buttresses to the south.
How it changed
The saved account records: Large chimneybreast exposed where buildings have been demolished in the east.
What survives
The saved account records: All openings blocked in roughcast walls leading to partially roofless wallheads.
Why it mattered
Grange Castle — Milltown matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: Despite its ruinous state, many features of the two building phases can be clearly discerned, and the building remains a prominent landmark in the area. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Grange Castlecastleunder 0.1 miles
- Grange Castle — Grange (newcastle By.)castleunder 0.1 miles
- Barrow — ring-barrow in Kilmahuddrickmonument0.3 miles
- Fulacht fia in Nangormonument0.4 miles
- Grange Cottage — GRANGE (BA. W BY.)building0.5 miles
- outbuilding — GRANGE (BA. W BY.)building0.5 miles
- Field system in Nangormonument0.5 miles
- Nangor castle — Nangorcastle0.6 miles
- 12th Lock Bridge — R120building0.6 miles
- bridge — Haydn's Lanebuilding0.6 miles
- 12th Lock — R120building0.6 miles
- mill (water) — BALLYMAKAILYbuilding0.7 miles
Add the human story, a picture, a first-hand message or a missing place.
Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.
Add a pictureAdd its storyTalk or ask a questionAdd a new placeThis official record and map point do not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.
Conversation about this place
Questions and messages sit beneath the source record. They are checked before appearing.
No questions or messages yet.
Ask a question or join the conversation