Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Castlelloyd, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlelloyd
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghadalton
- Coordinates
- 52.53204, -8.26707
- SMR number
- LI024-099----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A rock annotated 'Cloghadalton' on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map may mark approximate location of Cloghdalton Castle in the townland Castlelloyd. Westropp (1906-7, 103) recorded the following details about Cloughadalton Castle; 'Cloughdalton Rock is in Castle Lloyd, and the townland adjoins last. 1578 Tirlagh mac Brien held Cloghdallatowne, "one C[astle] (Inq. Exch. 7, 10). 1583-1586 Conor mac Brien, Coonagh, held Cloghtallon, C[astle]. (Des. R.,74 ; Peyton, p. 24). 1655 Clogdalton held by Connor mac Brien (C.S., xxiii., p. 3; B.D., p. 36; Petty, 67). 1668 Granted to Harding and Henry (Act Sett.). 1688 Coldalton in Ulloe (Trustees' Map, 24)'. Tower house like castle with two dwellings shown standing in 'Cloughdalton' on the 1657 Down Survey map of Coonagh Barony (Hib. Reg.). Duplicate site with LI025-030---- and LI033-057---.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 7 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.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - avenueunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.