Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Garranroe, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garranroe
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI021-135----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a castle in the townland of Garranroe has not been identified. Westropp (1906-7, 165) recorded the following details about Garranroe Castle; 'Garran Roo, ruinous C[astle]. in Crome, late Major-Gen. P. Purcell (C.S., xxiv., p. 30)'. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Major General Patricke Purcell, an Irish Papist, was the owner of Garranroe which contained 'a ruinous castle & an orchard' (Simington 1938, 140).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 4 December 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.