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Recorded monument · DU019-014001 · Co. Dublin

Castle – Anglo-Norman masonry castle in Co. Dublin (DU019-014001)

On the Sites and Monuments Record.

10 planning applications in the last 10 years fall inside this monument’s zone of notification.

10
in the zone, 10 years
10
in the zone, all years
0
ACP cases in the zone
8
within 100 m, 10 years

Zone of notification 3.87 ha

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Planning applications in the zone of notification 10 applications in the last 10 years

Building work started in the zone of notification 3 commencement notices

The record DU019-014001

SMR number
DU019-014001
Class
Castle – Anglo-Norman masonry castle
Townland
Co. Dublin
Named on the OS map
Clontarf Castle
National record
National Monuments Service record for DU019-014001

Situated on a slight rise overlooking Dublin Bay just SW of a Church (DU019-015001-) and graveyard (DU019-015002-). The present castle is a Tudor-Revival House (1837) with a mock Norman keep attached, designed by Willliam Vitruvius Morrison. It occupies the site of a former castle associated in the 12th-century with Adam de Phephoe and later the Knights Hospitallers (Bence-Jones 1987, 87; Dawson 1976, 124-5, O'Donovan 1997, 17-18)). During the late 17th century the property passed to John Vernon, a quartermaster of Cromwell’s army in 1650. The Civil survey (1654-6) describes a castle with a stone house adjoining a stone bawn at Clontarf (Simington 1945, 176). Rocque's map (1760) shows a large rectangular bawn with circular bastions at the NW and NE angles, which was demolished in 1837. Excavations in 1996 revealed little evidence for the original castle except for a section of wall (W 2.6m) orientated N-S, which extends under the existing building (O'Donovan 1997, 17-18). Compiled by Geraldine Stout

Other records in the same zone

Buildings of Ireland (NIAH) within 100 m

  • 50030310 Clontarf Castle · National rating · 7 m
  • 50030311 Church of St. John the Baptist · Regional rating · 97 m
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