Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Dromlara, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromlara
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI024-101----
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Westropp Dromlara Castle was incorporated into the fabric of a 'modern house' which he did not identify. Westropp (1906-7, 104) recorded the following details about Dromlara Castle; '1606 Morris Hurley of Knocklong held C[astle]. of Dromlara with the C.[astle] of Kyleduffe (Inq. Chan., 29). Described as C.[astle] of Dromlare or Kilduff (lb. 189). See Kilduff [infra, section 99]. Fabric - It is incorporated in the modern house'.
Tower house like castle with three dwellings shown standing beside a medieval road in 'Part of Kilduffe' 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.