Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Coolnapisha, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolnapisha
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI024-098----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of Shandangan Castle in the townland of Coolnapisha has not been identified. Westropp (1906-7, 104) recorded the following details about Coolnapisha Castle; '1655 Sandangyn forms one of a group of townlands in which a C[astle]. is shown in Petty's Map (C.S., xiii., p. 9; B.D., p. 38; Petty, 67 ; D.S.B., 15), granted to A. Brandon. 1688 Confiscated, Shandangine in Cloghine (Trustees' Maps 5, 33). 1703 Purchased by J. White.'. Tower house like castle shown standing in the townland of Coolnapisha close to the boundary with Dromalea and Shandagin on the 1657 Down Survey map of Coonagh Barony (Hib. Reg.).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 7 December 2020
References
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.
Westropp, T.J. 1906-7 The ancient castles of the county of Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26, 54-264.