Murphystown Castle (in ruins) — Report the wrong picture

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Murphystown Castle is a fragment of a probable tower house inside the entrance gate of the British Embassy. Two granite walls, each 1.1m thick, still stand where a vaulted ground floor once bore the weight of lives now forgotten. The Howels, the Cruises and Christchurch Cathedral held these lands in succession before the castle fell to ruin. What remains is enough to imagine the shape of the room, the reach of the vault and the certainty that people moved through it without knowing they were building a ghost.

Located to the E of Murphystown Road and Mount Eagle Lawn in the landscaped grounds of Glencairn. A fragment of a probable tower house inside the entrance gate of the British Embassy. The tower house comprises of portions of two walls built of granite masonry (Wall Wth 1.1m). Traces of a vault over the original ground floor are visible. (ITA Survey, 1945; Mc Dix 1897, 199). Formerly, the lands on which the castle is located were the W boundary of the demesne lands of Kill of the Grange and were held successively by the Howels, the Cruises and subsequently Christchurch Cathedral (Anon 1900, 191). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 25 June 2018

Built as a tower house, likely by a local gentry family in the 16th or 17th century, Murphystown Castle is remembered for its historical presence within the Glencairn estate and its current role as a fragmentary feature within the British Embassy's entrance.

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