Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Rower More, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rower More
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI021-137----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a castle in the townland of Rowermore has not been identified. Westropp (1906-7, 165) recorded the following details about Rowermore Castle; 'The tithes of Roer were granted to Warham St. Leger, and in 1595 to Sir H. Wallop (Fi. 1143, 4757, 5964). 1599 Scene of an ambuscade and a fierce attack on the advanced guard of Essex by Desmond's soldiers (A.F.M.; C.S.P.I.). 1657 Rewrmore C[astle]. N.[icholas] Lillies (D.S.A., 49; C.S., xxiv., p. 41). 1669 C[astle]. granted to G. Evans (Act Sett.)'. Tower House like castle standing on top of a hill on the 17th century Down Survey map of Coshma Barony (Hib. Reg.) and on the Down Survey map of Ballingaddy Parish (NLI Ms. 718).
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.
AFM - Annals of the kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters from the earliest period to the year 1616, ed. and trans. John O'Donovan (7 vols., Dublin, 1851; reprint New York, 1966)
NLI, MS 718 - National Library of Ireland, Parish maps with terriers, showing forfeited lands in County Limerick, commonly known as the "Down Survey", executed under the direction of Sir William Petty, 1657, and copied by Daniel O'Brien, 1786.
Hibernia Regnum: A set of 214 barony maps of Ireland dating to the period AD 1655-59. The original parish maps have been lost but the Hibernia Regnum maps are preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Goblet 1932, v-x). Photographic facsimiles of these maps were published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton in 1908.