Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Clonmacken, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonmacken
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- LI005-048----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of Clonmackenbeg Castle has not been identified. A large castellated house-like structure is depicted in the townland of 'Clonemakinbeg' on the 17th century Down Survey map of the Barony of North Liberties (Hib. Reg.; Westropp 1906-7, 82). On this map the castle is depicted as a battlemented central block flanked on either side by an angle tower which rises above the central block. The Down Survey map shows a second castle (LI005-047----) is shown standing in the adjoining townland to the SW in Clomackenbeg which now forms part of Clonmacken townland. The RMP map for Co. Limerick identified Clareview House [ITM 554912/657262] as the possible site of the castle. No surface remains visible of any castle at this location and no supporting cartographic evidence to suggest that this was the precise location of Clonmackenbeg Castle.
See attached 1657 Down Survey barony map of North Liberties (Hib. Reg.) showing Clonmacken Beg Castle
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 09 January 2020
References
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.