Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Clonmacken, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonmacken
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- LI005-047----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of Clonmackenmore Castle has not been identified. A tower house-like structure is depicted in the townland of 'Clonemakinmore' on the 17th century Down Survey map of the Barony of North Liberties (Hib. Reg.; Westropp 1906-7, 82). On this map a second castle (LI005-048----) is shown standing in the adjoining townland to the NE in Clomackenbeg which now forms part of Clonmacken townland. The RMP map for Co. Limerick identified Clonmacken House [ITM 554762/656935] 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 Clonmackenmore Castle.
See attached 1657 Down Survey barony map of North Liberties (Hib. Reg.) showing Clonmacken More Castle
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 09 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.
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.