Castle - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

Westropp (1906-07, 88) recorded the following details about Ballyneety or Whitestown Castle; '1619 Edm. Comyn held Whitestown C[astle]. At his death his son W. succeeded. 1655 Whitestown, alias Ballyneety, Castle. in Luidenbeg held by Lau[rence]. Comyn (D.S.A., 14, 26, C.S., xxi., p. 37). 1666 To Duke of York. 1702 To Alderman Rob. Twigg'. Tower-house like castle depicted in Whitestown alias Ballyneety on the 17th century Down Survey map of Clanwilliam Barony (Hib. Reg.) and on the parish map of Luddenbeg (NLI MS. 718). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Lawrence Comyne of Whitestowne, an Irish Papist, was the owner of these lands (Simington 1938, 85).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 1 December 2020

References

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.

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.