Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Clogh East, County Limerick, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.