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Baggotrath Castle, Dublin





Baggotrath Castle stood on what is now Upr Baggot St, Dublin,
its lands would eventually become the nucleus of the great Fitzwilliam/Pembroke estate of Dublin city,
a stream, "Baggotrath Brook", ran past it, see [Sweeney, 1991],
the castle was built early 1300s by the Bagod family, after whom the castle and now surrounding streets are named,
occupied 1379 by William Fitzwilliam,
then by Sir Edward Perrers 1403,
his widow died 1441, castle taken by an executor of her will,
seized back for the Fitzwilliam and Perrers families by their daughter's husband William Fitzwilliam 1442,
seat of the family until Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam, Kt moved to Merrion Castle temp c.1550,
Baggotrath Castle was wrecked 1649 in the time of the Royalist 1st Viscount Fitzwilliam,
the castle was abandoned, and fell into total ruin in the early 1700s,
Baggotrath Castle was visited by Austin Cooper in 1778 and described by him think 1780,
the ruins were finally demolished in the early 19th cent. as the area all around the Grand Canal was developed.



Detail of John Rocque's map of Dublin, 1756.
Green spot in middle is site of old Baggotrath Castle.



Baggotrath Castle, detail from Rocque's map 1756.



Modern map of the area above.
Assuming that Baggot St and Leeson St descended from the two outgoing roads in the 1756 map, we can see that the 1756 map is a little distorted.
[Harbison, 1998] says (probably from [Smith, 1856]) that Baggotrath Castle stood on what is now the part of Upper Baggot St facing Waterloo Rd.
From Google Maps.






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