Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Srahane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Srahane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI014-114----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a castle in the townland of Srahane has not been identified. Westropp (1906-7, 95) recorded the following details about Srahane Castle; '1583 W. Bourke holds Srahan
C[astle]. (Des. R., 37). 1620 Sir Jas. Craige confirmed in C[astle]. of Shrohane (Pat. R.). 1624 Pardon to Anselm O'Brien for its alienation to W. Creagh in 1618 (Pat. R.). 1655 A low tower and side wing shown. Srughane C[astle]. held by Lau. White and Dom. Creagh (C.S.,xxi., p. 15; D.S.A., 14, 18). 1666 Confirmed to Capt. Friend and Dr. E. Boyle, Bishop of Ferns (Act Sett.).'. Tower-house like castle with single storey house attached to one side is depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of Clanwilliam Barony (Hib. Reg.) where it is annotated 'Srahane & Cloghmoell'. Tower House with single storey house to one side shown on the Down Survey parish map of Caherconlish (NLI MS. 718). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that the Lawrence White of Limerick an Irish Papist was the owner in Srahane of a 'Castle and sixtie two acres belongeth to the said White excepting one chamber w[hi]ch belongs to Dominicke Creagh of the said Castle' (Simington 1938, 67).
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.