House in Dunsoghly, County Dublin

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What is recorded here

Attached to bawn wall that extends from the northwest of Dunsoghly Castle (DU014-005001-). The west wall and north gable with Tudor style chimney is all that survives and these have been incorporated into farm outbuildings. This is probably the building mentioned in the Civil survey (1654-6) as a 'dwelling house' with the castle at Dunsoghly (Simington 1945, 210).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU014-005006

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