Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Cahernarry (cripps),cahernarry (keane), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahernarry (cripps),cahernarry (keane)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI013-141----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of Cahernarry Castle and bawn (LI013-141001-) has not been identified. Westropp (1906-07, 88) recorded the following details about Cahernarry Castle; '1207 Keyrnedyn, alias Carnarthy, is named in Prince John's Charter (B.B.L., p. 89). 1320 Suit as to Ric. Bagot's rights under charter of Ric. father of J. le Moyne, at Wallygard in Carnarthy (Plea R.). 1540 Carran Fhearadhaigh in Burke estates (Rental). 1619 The C[astle]. and fort of Carnary granted to Holcroft, being late estate of George Bourke f. Tho. 1655 The lands with a C[astle]. and a beaune [bawn] held by John Bourke, &c. (D.S.A., 7 exp., C.S., xxix., p. 16'.
Tower House type castle standing in 'Carnarry' (Cahernarry) is depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of the Liberties Barony (Hib. Reg.). Castle depicted as a central block flanked by two towers on 17th century Down Survey map of Cahernarry Parish (NLI, MS. 718). The terrier of the Down Survey map of Cahernarry parish recorded that 'there is a Castle and a Bawne [LI013-141001-] on the Landes of Carnarry' (Ibid.). Cahernarry House is located in the general area where the castle is depicted on the Down Survey maps. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that John Bourke Alderman and William Bourke, Irish Papist s were the owners of Cahernarry which contained a 'castle & Bawne' (Simington 1938, 470).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 27 November 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.
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.