Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballyclogh (clanwilliam By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyclogh (clanwilliam By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI006-069----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of Ballyclogh Castle within the townland has not been identified. Castle described by Westropp (1906-7, 86) as following; '1620 Edm. Bourke f. Ric. confirmed in half the C[astle]. and mill of Ballinclohie (Pat. R). 1630 Livery of Ballinaclohy to Turlough mac Kennedy O'Brien (Chan. R.). 1655 Edm. Bourke, &c, unroffed C[astle]. (C.S., xxix., p. 10; D.S.A. 4 exp.). 1680 It belonged to James Whitro; the "etimology" is " Stone town" (Dyneley R.S.A.I. viii., p. 282). 1688 Confiscated as estate of King James (Trustees' Map, 30)'.
The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that upon the lands of Edmund Bourke of Ballysimon and James Bourke fitz Rickard there stood 'an unroofed Castle and a Mill Seate' (Simington 1938, 466).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 14 January 2020
References
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.
Westropp, T.J. 1906-7 The ancient castles of the county of Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26, 54-264.
Shirley, E.P., Dineley, T., O'Brien, R. and Graves, J. 1858-67 Extracts from the Journal of Thomas Dineley, Esquire, giving some account of his visit to Ireland in the reign of Charles II. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 6, 73-91, 176-204, 289-90.