Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - ringwork
Coolbaun (coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolbaun (coonagh By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.58244, -8.25988
- SMR number
- LI025-002004-
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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
Possible site of Anglo-Norman earth and timber castle built by William de Braose (de Briouze) which was later replaced by the stone castle of Coonagh (LI025-002002-) built by William and Matilda de Marisco in 1225 (O'Keeffe 2011, 95). O'Keeffe suggested that Coonagh Castle may have been the location of this earth and timber castle and stated that 'the site is flat ground that is bordered by a curving break of slope on its south side, and this raises the possibility of an earlier earth-and-timber castle with an enclosure of about 50m in diameter' (ibid.).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 08 January 2019
References
O'Keeffe, T. 2011 Building lordship in thirteenth-century Ireland: the donjon of Coonagh Castle, Co. Limerick. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 141, 91-127.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.