Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Pullagh (coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pullagh (coshma By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins) (1924).
- Coordinates
- 52.48411, -8.73445
- SMR number
- LI030-107002-
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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
Westropp (1906-7, 168) recorded the following details about Pollagh Castle; '1657 "C[astle]. on Polagh" (D.S.A., 42). No other mention, a doubtful site'. Tower house like castle standing on a rise of ground is depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of Coshma Barony (Hib. Reg.).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 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.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.