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Recorded monument · DU018-020006 · Co. Dublin

Mural tower (Historic Town) at Co. Dublin (DU018-020006)

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670 planning applications in the last 10 years fall inside this monument’s zone of notification, and 176 An Coimisiún Pleanála cases touch it.

670
in the zone, 10 years
670
in the zone, all years
176
ACP cases in the zone
16
within 100 m, 10 years

Zone of notification 100.95 ha

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The record DU018-020006

SMR number
DU018-020006
Class
Mural tower (Historic Town)
Townland
Co. Dublin
Named on the OS map
Not indicated
National record
National Monuments Service record for DU018-020006

'Stanihurst's Tower' on the N side of Little Ship Street was a mural tower located to the E of Pole Gate [DU018-020021-] which defended the city wall (DU018-020007) of Dublin. Known as 'Stanihurst's Tower' after James Stanihurst, recorder of Dublin, who owned the adjoining property. This tower was described in 1585 as follows; 'From Bremyghams towre to Stanirste [h]is towre is 196 foote [60m] distant, whereof there is next the said Bremyghams towre 64 foote [19.5m] within the castell diche not rampered, and from thens to Stanirste [h]is towre, beinge 132 foote [40m], is sufficientlie rampiered, and firme grounde 20 foote [6m] hie from the foundacion of the wall, which wall is 28 foote [8.5m] hie, wherof 8 foote [2.4m] is abowe the said rampier besydes the garettes and 7 foote [2.1m] thicke. The said Stanirste [h]is towre is rounde withowt the wall and skware within, three stories hie, with three tymber loftes, and in the loer storie three lowpes [loops], in the second storie one lowpe, and in the third storie twoe lowps, the wall 6 foote [1.8m] thicke, 19 foote [5.8m] sqware within, and the towre 46 foote [14m] hie besydes the garettes. From Stanhurst [h]is towre to the Pole gate [DU018-020021-] is 168 foote [51m] distant, and the wall and rampier agreinge in like height and thicknis as the other parte of the said wall and rampier aforsaide' (CARD Vol. 2, 551). The remains still survive on the N side of Ship Street. They are round outside the city wall; square inside the wall and stand three storeys high (H c. 14.5m, T c. 1.8m). It was refaced in the 19th century and has a thick base batter. A section of city wall survives either side of it (Healy 1973, 18). This S stretch of town wall (L 85m, H 5m) leads up to the boundary of Dublin Castle. It is built of coursed masonry and battered towards the extra-mural street level, which is on the fosse site (Thomas 1992, Vol. 2, 80; Clarke, Dent and Johnson 2002, 32). Extant in modified form 2002 (Clarke 2002, 21). See attached Google Street Maps photos of section of Dublin City wall and polygonal shaped mural tower. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 28 April 2023

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