Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Kilballyowen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilballyowen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilballyowen House
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilballyowen House (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.47889, -8.50795
- SMR number
- LI032-124----
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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
Described by O'Kelly (1944, 20) as following; 'No trace now visible. A modern Georgian house has been built on the site and it is said that parts of the castle were incorporated in this'. Kilballyowen House was demolished in the late 1960s. According to Lewis (1837) the O'Grady family built a very extensive castle at Kilballyowen which in 1837 wad described as having been 'incorporated with the modern dwelling-house, and contains four room in excellent order'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 06 August 2019
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1944 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 4, 16-53.
Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.