Castle - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

Moylish Castle [LI005-050001-] described by Westropp (1906-7, 82) as following; '1665 It is probably the peel-tower of "Mollish" at Ballineaghtenmore (Petty 63); probably Mealish, held by Sir James White (C.S., xviii., p. 79)'. Moylish [Mollish] Castle depicted as a tower house type structure surrounded by a cluster of dwellings on the Down Survey map of the North Liberties in Limerick (Hib. Reg.). On this map the castle is depicted in the townland of Moylish in roughly the same location as Moylish House. No castle is depicted in Ballineaghtenmore [Ballynanty More] on the Down Survey map of the North Liberties. Could be a duplicate castle with Moylish Castle (LI005-050001-).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 08 January 2020

References

Westropp, T.J. 1906-7 The ancient castles of the county of Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26, 54-264.

NLI, MS 718 - National Library of Ireland, Parish maps with terriers, showing forfeited lands in County Limerick, commonly known as the "Down Survey", executed under the direction of Sir William Petty, 1657, and copied by Daniel O'Brien, 1786.

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.