Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Ballysteen (kenry By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballysteen (kenry By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI003-031----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A Desmond castle, confiscated in late 16th century, and in ruins by mid 17th century (Westropp 1906-7, 156). Down Survey (1655 AD) map of Kenry Barony (Hib. Reg.) shows castle on E side of townland (Westropp 1907, 157); the depiction suggests castle was a tower house. Exact location not known though Westropp (ibid.) suggests it may be on the site of the later Ballysteen House (LI011-125----). Duplicate site with LI003-027----.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Westropp, T.J. 1906-7 The ancient castles of the county of Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26, 54-264.
Hibernia Regnum: A set of 214 barony maps of Ireland dating to the period AD 1655-59. The original parish maps have been lost but the Hibernia Regnum maps are preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Goblet 1932, v-x). Photographic facsimiles of these maps were published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton in 1908.