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Castle - unclassified

Clogh East, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Clogh East, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Clogh East
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Castle (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Castle (in Ruins) (1923)
Coordinates
52.54447, -8.89326
SMR number
LI020-118----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Clogh Castle described in 1840 as 'These ruins are of rectangular form, 22 feet broad. The east wall is perfect; the west wall is completely destroyed; and only fragments of the other walls remains. There was a small edifice built against the east side, 20 feet long and 12 feet wide; its walls are perfect, and there is a chimney still standing' (OSNB Croagh Parish, 511).
Westropp (1906-7, 217-8) recorded the following details about Cloghadeboy Castle; '1583 T. Mac Rudderye owned Clohokotredboy, in Toghe Croghe. 1586 It and Kiltennan were held by Maur. mac Edm. Sarsfield (Des. R., 21b; Peyton, 207). Peyton distinguishes it from Cloghatred (supra, pp. 72, 79). The C[astle]. was granted to J. Stroude, 1587 (Carew i., p. 449), and in 1593 to Bob. Stroude, with Ballycottred, Cappagh, &c. (Fi. 5781). 1655 Held by Major-Gen. Hardress Waller (C.S., p. 50) not to be confused with Cloghatred, in Nantinan (supra, 316). Fabric - A tower 22 feet [6.7m] wide, the east side nearly perfect, with a side wing 20 feet [6m] by 12 feet [3.65m], and chimney (O.S.L., 9, p. 438).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 3 December 2020

References

OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.

Westropp, T.J. 1906-7 The ancient castles of the county of Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26, 54-264.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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