Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Caherdavin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherdavin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI005-046----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of Caherdavin Castle has not been identified. A tower house-like structure with house attached to one side of castle is depicted in this townland on the 17th century Down Survey map of the Barony of North Liberties (Hib. Reg.; Westropp 1906-7, 82). The RMP map for Co. Limerick identified Caherdavin House [ITM 554906/657861] as the possible site of the castle. No surface remains visible of any tower house at this location and no supporting cartographic evidence to suggest that this was the precise location of Caherdavin Castle.
See attached 1657 Down Survey barony map of North Liberties (Hib. Reg.) showing Caherdavin Castle
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 09 January 2020
References
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.
Westropp, T.J. 1906-7 The ancient castles of the county of Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26, 54-264.