What is recorded here
Demolished in 1960. It was formerly situated on a prominent gravel hillock off Tymon Lane. This was a small, square 15th-century tower house attached to the prebend of St Patrick's Cathedral. It is well illustrated in a drawing by Beranger dated 1763 (Harbison 1998, 44-45). It had two diagonally opposed corner towers, one containing a stair tower. The entrance was placed unusually in the SW stair tower and defended by machicolation. It rose to three storeys with a vaulted basement and battlements (Johnson 1988, 557-72).
Demolished in 1960. It was formerly situated on a prominent gravel hillock off Tymon Lane. This was a small, square 15th-century tower house attached to the prebend of St Patrick's Cathedral. It is well illustrated in a drawing by Beranger dated 1763 (Harbison 1998, 44-45). It had two diagonally opposed corner towers, one containing a stair tower. The entrance was placed unusually in the SW stair tower and…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU022-007
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- 瑞丽江的河水, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- JP, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Ericlevik, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- F. Elrington Ball, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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