Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 16th/17th century
Clonroad More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonroad More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.84795, -8.97199
- SMR number
- CL033-085002-
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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
A large mansion known as ‘caisléan caoimh gheal’ or ‘white castle’ was built on to the earlier tower house (CL033-085001-) at Clonroad, Ennis, between 1551 and 1558. The castle was besieged in 1600 and there is a record of the ‘great ould house’ being covered with slate or shingle in 1658. A sketch by Thomas Dineley in 1681 shows a large residence with a tower house, a six-bay mansion and a bawn surrounded by a curtain wall with an arched opening defended by a machicolation. Two adjacent bridges across the river (CL033-085003- and CL033-085004-) are also clearly visible in the sketch. A brewery and ‘Clonroad House’ were built on part of the site in the 19th century. (Ó Dálaigh 2012, 15)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 23 April 2014
References
Ó Dálaigh, B. 2012 Irish Historic Towns Atlas, No. 25. Ennis. Royal Irish Academy. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.