Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 16th/17th century
Ballyculleen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyculleen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballyculleen House
- SMR number
- LI031-162----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a thatched house in the townland of Ballyculleen depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of Coshma Barony (Hib. Reg.) has not been identified. On this map the house is depicted as a single storey building standing close to the townland boundary with Rosstemple in the parish of Ballingaddy. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that James Leo of Ballycullline an Irish Papist was the owner of ‘a good tatcht house walled with stone, and an orchard thereupon’ which stood in the part parish of Croom (Simington 1938, 138). Ballyculleen House (ITM 553876/637389) depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map is located in roughly the same area where the ‘Thatched House’ is depicted on the Down Survey map.
See attached Down Survey map of Coshma Barony
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien and Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 23 March 2021
References
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.
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.