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Baldungan Castle
Baldungan Castle (or Baldongan), SW of Skerries (in the direction of Lusk), N Co.Dublin.
Baldungan Castle was
built by de Bermingham
in the 13th cent.
Although plaque
at the site
says
Barnwall
built the castle, in the 13th cent.
- References:
- Sources yet to be consulted:
- JRSAI 44, 1914, 250
Baldungan.
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Baldungan.
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What survives at Baldungan is the ruin of the
old church and the church tower.
Photo 2001.
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Baldungan Castle
was a short distance to the NW of the church,
as shown in this sketch from
[Grose, 1794]
(think the sketch is from 1791).
Photo 2001,
taken from the
Dúchas
plaque
at the site.
A small ruin survived until the 1970s,
as shown in
[Ir. Nat. Monuments],
and in
SKERRIES in
[AA Touring Guide to Ireland, 1976].
Today, the name "Baldungan Castle" is still on the gate,
but nothing of the castle now survives.
Unbelievably, sometime between the 1970s and today,
the ruin was destroyed
and the area ploughed as an open crop field.
Photo 2001.
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The path in from the road (to the NE of the ruin).
Photo 2001.
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