County: Dublin Site name: Grange Castle
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU017-034 Licence number: 16E0510
Author: Paul Duffy
Site type: Tower-house
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 703859m, N 731879m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.326963, -6.440897
Site investigation works associated with a programme of conservation at Grange Castle, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 (OS Sheet 17) by South Dublin County Council took place in October 2016. IAC Ltd monitoried these groundworks.
The original structure of Grange Castle (DU017-034) dates from c. 1580 and has an 18th-century, two-storey addition attached to its western elevation. The overall footprint is 6m x 16m. While the buildings were inhabited until the 1970s, they are now in a state of dilapidation. There is significant build-up of vegetation including tree and shrub growth to the external walls of the castle as well as to the internal floors at ground floor level and at first floor level over a deep arch to the original castle.
Monitoring was carried out in October 2016 and a total of eight pits were excavated. The pits revealed that both the Georgian house and the earlier tower-house possess shallow foundations. Nothing of archaeological significance was identified within the pits surrounding the house and tower-house.
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