Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Cloghkeating, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghkeating
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI013-142----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of Cloghkeating Castle has not been identified. Westropp (1906-07, 150) recorded the following details about Cloghkeating Castle; '1336 Ric. Keating (Rental). 1586 Clogh Akeatyn C[astle]. lands of Murrogh mac Moriertagh O'Brien, tanist of Poblebryan (Peyton, p. 254b). 1587 Grant to Sir E. Fyton, of Tirvowe, the C[astle]. and lands of Cloghkettin, Rahan, &c. (Fi. 5032 ; Inq. Exch., 47). 1611 Sir W. Agard held the C [astle]of Cloghketting transferred under W. Carter's Patent (Inq. Chan., 6b). 1657 Marg., Lady Dowager of Castleconnell, held Cloghenkeaten and Illen Ivowana with the broken C[astle]. (C.S., xxix., p. 29; D.S.A., 1). 1669 Confirmed to David and H. Bindon (Act Sett.). 1757 Sam. Bindon, of Templemungret, settled Cloughkoka and Cloughkeatin , alias Ballynoe (Dub. Reg., B., 185, p. 600)'. Tower House type castle in the townland of Cloghkeating is depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of the Liberties Barony (Hib. Reg.). The terrier of the 17th century Down Survey map of Mungret parish recorded that there is a castle 'at Cloghenkeaten' (NLI, MS. 718).
The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Margaret Lady Dowager of Castleconnell an Irish Papist was the owner of Cloghkeating which contained a 'broken castle, a Mill seate [LI013-247----], & a few cabbins' (Simington 1938, 479).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 27 November 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.
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.