Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Moanahila, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moanahila
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI025-031----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of Pollardstown Castle in the townland of Moanahila has not been identified. Westropp (1906-7, 102-3) recorded the following details about Pollardstown or Monahila Castle; 'Moriertagh O'Brien held Cloghfollard C[astle]. (Inq. Exch. 7, 10). 1583 Cloghplallordy or Cloghenflordy C[astle]. held by Kynedy and Conor MacBrien (Des. R., 74). 1610 T. Pollard of Brampton, Devon, a tailor, enfeoffed James, Baron of Dunboyne, in Cloghpollardy, alias Pollardestowne (Inq. Chan., 9, 20). 1640 The latter held C[astle]. in fee (Inq. Chan., 178). 1655 Pollardstown, broken C[astle], James Butler; the townland meared on the north with Longford and corresponds to Moanahila (C.S., xxiii., p. 3). His widow Mary held it (B.D., p. 35). 1668 Pollardstown confirmed to J. Harding and T. Henry (Act Sett.)'. Tower like castle is depicted on the 1657 Down Survey map of Coonagh Barony (Hib. Reg.). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that the recently deceased James Butler of Pollordstowne, an Irish Papist, was the owner of 'a Mill and a broken Castle' (Simington 1938, 19). Castle and Mill (LI025-048----) depicted on 1657 Down Survey map of Coonagh Barony (Hib. Reg.).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 8 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.
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1938 The civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IV: county of Limerick, with a section of Clanmaurice barony Co. Kerry. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
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.