Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Dooncaha, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooncaha
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI019-242----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a doubtful castle site in the townland of Dooncaha has not been identified. Westropp (1906-7, 245) recorded the following details about a doubtful castle in Dooncaha; 'Not marked. 1657 The C[astle]. shown. (D.S.B., 3). 1655 Ric. Stephenson had held Down Cahie (C.S.,
p. 85). A doubtful site'. No mention of any castle in Dooncaha on the lands of Richard Stephenson in the 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick (Simington 1938, 321).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 21 April 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.