Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Shanid Lower, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanid Lower
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of) (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55719, -9.11825
- SMR number
- LI019-080----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on gentle NNE-facing slope; in SW corner of field c. 70m to the NW of Waterpark House. No evident surface trace of castle. Low natural-looking rise (18.6m N-S; 10.5m E-W; H 0.9m) with stream beside to W. Described in late-16th century as 'square, 50 feet wide outside the walls, and 30 feet wide … five separate rooms or chambers and two stories ... all the roofs entirely gone' (Westropp (1906-7, 244).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.