Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Annagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI006-068001-
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of Annagh castle within the townland has not been identified. Annagh Castle described by Westropp (1906-7, 100) as following; '1592 Held by Peter Walsh. See also grants 1552-1592. In 1619 Conor Mulrian held the C[astle]. at his death (Inq. Chan., 36b). 1655 John Ryan held C[astle]. (C.S., xxx., p. 5, and D.S.A., 28). Col. Piers Walsh is stated to have owned it (B.D., p. 113). It is shown in the D.S. as having two turrets'. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that John Ryan of Annagh was the owner in Annagh 'of land with a Castle two Orchards and a mill seate' (Simington 1938, 6)
The 17th century Down Survey map of Owneybeg barony (Hib. Reg.) depicted the castle as a central block flanked on either side by an angle tower with a cluster of cabins nearby (LI006-068002-). The Down Survey map of Abbeyowneybeg [Abington] parish (NLI, MS 718) shows the castle standing close to the border with County Tipperary
See attached Down Survey map of Owneybeg barony showing Annagh Castle and the cluster of cabins
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 14 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.
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.
Westropp, T.J. 1906-7 The ancient castles of the county of Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26, 54-264.
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1938 The civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IV: county of Limerick, with a section of Clanmaurice barony Co. Kerry. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.