Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Kilculleen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilculleen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI014-106----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a castle and bawn (LI014-106001-) in the townland of Kilculleen not been identified. Westropp (1906-7, 93) recorded the following details about Kilculleen Castle; '1583 Kyllkollen C[astle]. held by W. Bourke (Des. R., 57). 1623 Pardon to Jasper White for alienating C[astle]. to J. Roch (Pat. R.). 1624 Stephen Roch held it (Inq. Chan. 24a). 1655 C[astle]. and bawen held by Ingoldsbye. Kilcowlin is shown as a tall tower, with high gables and chimneys (D.S.A. 26, C.S., xxi., p. 38); not to be confused with Kilcullane in Small County.' Tower-house like castle depicted 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 John Borke was the owner of 'a Castle and a bawen unrepaired' (Simington 1938, 84). According to Lynch (1911-13, 26) in Kilculleen there are 'the sites of a church and a castle termed Shanawally, i.e., Sean bhaile, the old baile, or enclosure'.
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.
Lynch, J. F. 1911-13 Notes on Place Names in North East of County Limerick, North Munster Antiquaries Journal 2, 23-28
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.