Castle - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

The Ordnance Survey recorded in 1840 that there was the 'ruins of an ancient castle adjoining Castle Iever or Tullerboy House, the residence of R. Ievers, Esq.' (OSNB Athlacca Parish, 142).
Westropp (1906-7, 167) recorded the following details about Tullerboy Castle which was traditionally believed to have been located on site of Castle Ievers; 'Not marked; but traditionally at the present house. 1319-20 Tylahorwy, Co. Lym., held by Jo, de Kerredyn; the King granted it to W., Bishop of Ossory, and his heirs for ever (Writ, Pipe R., No. 43). 1583 Edm. Leo held Tollereboye and Ross Temple; W. Ryurdane had held the C[astle]. when he was slain in Desmond's rebellion (Inq. Exch., Jas. I., No. 8; Des. R., 39 b; C.S.P.I.). 1655 Walter and Morras Lee held the C[astle]. and bawn (C.S., xxiv., p. 10; D.S.A., 49; B.D., 72)'.
Tower-house like castle depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of Coshma Barony (Hib. Reg.) and on the Down Surevy map of Ballingaddy Parish (NLI MS 718). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Walter Leo & Morcas Leo of Tullorvoy, Irish Papists, were the owners of 'a Castle a Bawne, a tatch wall stone house and another house on it' (Simington 1938, 127).
Castle Ievers described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a, 'Detached four-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c. 1830, with central breakfront, portico to front (west) elevation, five-bay side elevation and adjoining late medieval castle to rear (east) elevation. Castle to rear having rubble limestone walls with cut limestone crenellations having stringcourse beneath' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; NIAH Reg. No. 21903114).
Classified by Donnelly (1999, 31, 38) as a Type 4 tower house which consists of 'tower houses in the county which belong to the last phase in the tradition, with architectural features which include tourelles with shot holes, hood-moulded and mullioned windows, parapet water spouts and cruciform roofs'.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 10 December 2020

See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

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.

OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.

Westropp, T.J. 1906-7 The ancient castles of the county of Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26, 54-264.

Donnelly, C.J. 1999 A Typological Study of the Tower Houses of County Limerick. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 129, 19-39.

NLI, MS 718 - National Library of Ireland, Parish maps with terriers, showing forfeited lands in County Limerick, commonly known as the "Down Survey", executed under the direction of Sir William Petty, 1657, and copied by Daniel O'Brien, 1786.

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.