Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Corbally (bunratty Upper By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corbally (bunratty Upper By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Corbally Castle (Site of) (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.85141, -8.84658
- SMR number
- CL034-089002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
It was built by Mahon and Gilladubh, sons of Sioda MacNamara, and continued in MacNamara hands until Conor MacNamara forfeited his castle and lands in 1641to a Pierce Butler. Later the O'Briens settled in Corbally and Captain Dermot O'Brien, who fought at Fontenoy in 1745, is recorded as residing here. By 1839 the castle was demolished and only traces of its foundations survived (OSL Vol.2, 1839, 240). Situated at the E end of a low hill. Subcircular platfrom (dims.c 21m N-S; 16m E-W; H 0.4m at W to 2.3m at E) bisected by a N-S road. (Frost 1893, 50)
Compiled by: Leo Morahan and Michael Moore
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attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report).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.
Date of upload: 11 December 2014
References
Frost, J. 1893 (Reprint 1978) The history and topography of the county of Clare: from the earliest times to the beginning of the 18th century. Dublin. Mercier Press.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.