Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Boulabally, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boulabally
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI021-130001-
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a castle (LI021-130----) and bawn in the townland of Boulabally has not been identified. Westropp (1906-7, 165) recorded the following details about Boulabally Castle; 'Ger. f. Morris FitzGerald alienated Bollybally C[astle]. to Jas. Leo. It was redeemed by his grandson, Thomas FitzGerald, in 1601. Maur. FitzGerald, of Thomastown, held Buolibally in 1636 with Cahirassa (Inq. Chan., 184). 1655 Ballybolly in Crome, ruinous C.[astle] and bawn; a part of Adare Burgess Lands (C.S., xxiv., p. 38)'. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that the widow Eleanor FitzGerrald alias Harris, an Irish Papist, was the owner of Boulabally which contained 'a ruinous Castle a Bawne and a Mill (LI021-194----)' (Simington 1938, 146).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 3 December 2020
References
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.
Westropp, T.J. 1906-7 The ancient castles of the county of Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26, 54-264.