Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballyshane (pubblebrien By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyshane (pubblebrien By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI022-173----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a castle in the townland of Ballyshane has not been identified. Westropp (1906-7, 151-2) recorded the following details about Ballyshane Castle; '1625 Donat O'Brien, of Baliymoroghoe (Ballymurphy), held Ballyshane C[astle]. (Inq. Chan., 94). 1657. Ballishane, in Kilpichane, stump of C[astle]. held by M. Bryne (D.S.B., 21-23).
The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that the widow Margaret Bryen alias Stephenson, an Irish Papist, was the owner of Ballyshane which contained 'a stumpe of a Castle' (Simington 1938, 378). Tower-house like castle depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of Pubblebrien Barony (Hib. Reg.)
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.
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.