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Castle - ringwork

Coolbaun (Coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - ringwork, Coolbaun, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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