Old Shanganagh Castle (Beechlands, Shanganagh Road)
Tower house (fragment, private)
Ivy-covered west wall and NW corner of a three-storey tower house above Bride's Glen on the Loughlinstown River. Thomas Lawless undertook to build a castle here in 1408; enlarged under the Walsh family; destroyed by fire in 1763 (Ball, SMR). A water mill stood beside it. Not to be confused with the later Shanganagh Castle on the Dublin Road.
- Period
- 15th century
- Distance
- 0.8 km from St Anne's Church
Nearby history & heritage
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Shanganagh House / Shanganagh Park house (Rathsallagh) Rathsallagh Ave, Shankill, Dublin 18, D18 DY83
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Ballybrack portal tomb ('Shanganagh dolmen') 105-98 Cromlech Fields, Ballybrack, Dublin, A96 T6W4
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Rathdown Union Workhouse (St Columcille's Hospital) Bray Rd, Loughlinstown, Dublin, D18 V9K1
Sources: National Monuments Service · National Monuments Service · Ball, History of the County Dublin · excavations.ie · Suggest a correction