Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Milltown North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Milltown Castle (in ruins) (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.57160, -8.97234
- SMR number
- LI020-004002-
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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 limestone crag on gentle SE-facing slope. This L-shaped tower house stood in SW quadrant of cashel (LI020-004001-) has now been reduced to ground level. Westropp (1906-7, 208) described the remains here as 'fragment of an old house, with a tall chimney' but it seems most of its stone was used in the 18th century in the building of nearby Altavilla House (Donnelly 1994, vol. 2, 152).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 4/1977).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.