What is recorded here

Kilnamanagh Castle was a tower house in County Dublin whose bottom two storeys became a farm building before the area disappeared under development. Its newel stairs climbed beside a narrow light slit while the exterior walls sloped outward at the base. The original studded wooden doorway left the site and now stands in the National Museum, Dublin, preserving the only certain trace of the house.

When last inspected in 1975, the bottom two storeys of a tower house had been incorporated into a farm building. The main features identified were a newel stairs lit by a slit ope and base batter on the exterior. The original studded wooden doorway is housed in the National Museum, Dublin (Ua Broin 1944, 194-5; Ball 1905, III, 120-21; Handcock 1991, 66-7, 2nd ed). This area has since been developed leaving no visible surface remains. Compiled by Geraldine Stout

Built in the 15th or 16th century, Kilnamanagh Castle was likely constructed by a local Gaelic noble family. It is remembered as a rare surviving example of a tower house integrated into later agricultural use, illustrating the adaptation of medieval structures in rural Ireland.

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