Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Cloontemple, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloontemple
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI029-107003-
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a medieval castle in the village of Ballingarry that was mentioned in the Ordnance Survey Letters has not been identified. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded the following; 'The inhabitants say there was formerly a castle called Castle Rag, the site of which is now occupied by a modern house in the Village of Ballingarry, immediately adjoining the Protestant Church' (OSL, 66).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 22 January 2019
References
OSL - Ordnance Survey Letters. Letters written by members of the Ordnance Survey's 'Topographical Department' (T. O'Conor, A. O'Curry, E. Curry, J. O'Donovan and P. O'Keeffe) sent to headquarters from the field (1834-41). MSS in Royal Irish Academy.