Castle - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

The precise location of a castle in the townland of Kishyquirk has not been identified. Westropp (1906-7, 98) recorded the following details about Kishyqurik Castle; '1597 Held by Ulick Bourke (Fi. 6170). 1655 Kishiquirke and Cloughnadrumone "each a C[astle]." It is shown as a tall peel tower, and named twice in explanation (C.S. xxi., p. 42; D.S.A., 3, 27, exp.). 1718 Ralph Wilson held it (Dub. Reg., B. 48, p. 100). Tower-house like castle depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of Clanwilliam Barony (Hib. Reg.) and on the parish map of Abbeyowney (NLI MS. 718). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that John Borke Irish Papist of Kissiquirck was the owner of 'a Castle and an orchard there' (Simington 1938, 87).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 3 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.

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.

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.