Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Greenane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greenane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- LI014-104001-
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a castle (LI014-104----) and bawn in the townland of Greenane, parish of Caherconlish has not been identified. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Owen Clanchie, English proprietor and a member of the States army, Charles Clancie of London, John Clancie, Irish Papist and Simon Clancie, Irish Papist were the owners of lands which contained the 'Castle town and lands of Grenane voughtragh, the third p[ar]te of the said Castle Bawne and twentie acres of the said lands belongeth to the said Owen' (Simington 1938, 65).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 2 December 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.