Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Glebe (iveragh By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glebe (iveragh By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Short Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 51.94842, -10.13613
- SMR number
- KE080-017----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Short Castle/ Caisleán Gearr: There are no visible remains of this castle which was situated a short distance SE of Killinane church and graveyard (KE080-016001-). Usually referred to as Srugreana castle, it was probably built by the branch of the MacCarthys known as Sliocht Cormac Dunguile (Butler 1925, 54). It is recorded in the OSL as a 'small butt of a building called Caislean Gearr'. A raised platform, 18m E-W and 14m N-S, marks its location. The MacCarthys forfeited Srugreana during the Cromwellian period but recovered it on lease in 1697 (Butler 1925, 55).
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1113. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 31 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.