Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Cloghnadromin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghnadromin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI014-101----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a castle in the townland of Cloghnadromin has not been identified. Westropp (1906-7, 98) recorded the following details about Cloghnadromin Castle; '1641 John Burgett held Cloghenn Drummin (Dep. 134). 1655 The C[astle]. and mill of Cloghdrumon, Cloghnadromin, and Cloghidrumon (D.S.A., 14, 27, and exp.; Petty, 65). Tower-house like castle with single storey hall/house attached to one side is depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of Clanwilliam Barony (Hib. Reg.) and on the parish map of Abbeyowney (NLI MS. 718). The terrier of the Down Survey parish map recorded that John Bourke of Cloghnadromin there is 'a Castle' (NLI, MS. 718). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that John Borke deceased and late of Cloghnadromin was the owner of 'a Castle & a mill seate' (Simington 1938, 86).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 2 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.