What is recorded here

Simmonscourt Castle stood east of the Dodder in County Dublin, its tower house visible in Beranger's 1766 drawings before a Victorian residence replaced the old complex. Only a gate tower remains now, a bare stone sentinel on flat land where farm buildings once clustered beside the castle. The castle did not vanish in a single night; it was rewritten, room by room, until the new house claimed the name and the old walls retreated into shadow.

Situated in flat terrain E of the river Dodder. Two drawings by Beranger in 1766 show a towerhouse and adjoining farm buildings (Harbison 1998, 64-7). A gate tower (DU018-063002) is the only surviving remnant of the castle complex. (Grose 1791, I, 21 Plate 21; Ball 1900, 308, 316, 317; Ball 1903, 29-32; Ball 1907, 18) Simmonscourt Castle was replaced by a Victorian residence in the beginning of the 18th-century.

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