Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballagh (corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballagh (corcomroe By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.95907, -9.21662
- SMR number
- CL016-072----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the SE shore of Lickeen Lough, on a low-lying N-facing wooded slope in poorly drained marshy pasture. Ballagh Castle was in the possession of Teige McMurrough O’Brien in 1574 but by 1639 it had fallen into disrepair. Its site was pointed out by a local person (Ua Cróinín and Breen 1997). No visible surface trace of it survives and only intermittent traces of the walls of the rectangular building, named Ballagh House on the 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map, are visible; they have been incorporated into field boundaries and stand out as more regularly built sections of walling. Ua Cróinín and Breen (ibid.) noted that a number of dressed limestone blocks visible in the vicinity and reused in the nearby farmhouse may have come from it.
See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 6 May 2022
References
Ua Cróinín, R. and Breen, M. 1997 The castles and tower-houses of Co. Clare, 6 vols. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Causewayunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.