Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Pallasbeg, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallasbeg
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI015-047----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of the medieval castle of Pallasbeg within the townland has not been identified (Westropp 1906-7, 199). Seymour (1907, 371) recorded the following details about this building; 'The Down Survey notes that "there is at Tuogh Killuragh a Castle in repaire, and a Stonehouse [LI015-048----] in repaire, and Six Cabbins" (this last is evidently the village alluded to above); while the Civil Survey speaks of "Tuogh and Pallisbeg, two ploughlands with a castle in repaire, a Bawen, a stone-house [LI015-048----], an Orchard, two mills seate, and the demolished Castle of Pallisbeg." The Mac Brien family owned these castles and lands'.
The 1654-56 Civil Survey recorded that Tadhg O'Brien was the owner of the lands of 'Towgh an Pallicebeg' on which there stood a 'Castle in repaire a Bawen a stone house an Orchard two Millseates and the Demolished Castle of Pallicebeg' (Simington 1938, 8). The terrier of the Down Survey map of Tuogh Parish stated that 'There is at Twogh Killuragh a Castle in repaire and a stone house in repaire and six Cabbins' (NLI, MS 718). A tower house type castle is depicted in the vicinity of Pallasbeg House on the Down Survey map of Tuogh Parish.
See attached Down Survey map of the Parish of Tuogh
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 30 June 2020
References
Seymour, Rev. St. J. 1907 Abbey Owney, County Limerick. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 37, 165-80, 360-73.
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.
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.