Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballybrown (pubblebrien By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrown (pubblebrien By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI012-102----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of Ballybrown Castle in the townland of Ballybrown has not been identified. Castle not depicted and is not named on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Westropp (1906-7, 148) recorded the following details about this castle; '1583 C[astle]. named. 1655 Held by Marg. Bryne and G. Comyn (C.S., p. 23 ; D.S.B., 26)'. There is no mention of a castle in this townland in the 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick (Simington 1938, 386).
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 8 July 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.