Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
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
- LI006-068002-
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of possible medieval settlement associated with Annagh castle (LI006-068001-) has not been identified. 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 which may indicate the existence of a medieval settlement associated with the castle
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
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.