Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballincurra (coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballincurra (coshma By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI039-123----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a castle in the townland of Ballincurra has not been identified. Westropp (1906-7, 168) recorded the following details about Ballincurragh; '1655 Ballycoragh C[astle]. in Athlacca (D.S.A., 45); no other mention. Doubtful site.'. Tower house like castle depicted standing in centre of the townland of Ballincurra on the 1654-7 Down Survey map of Cosham Barony (Hib. Reg.). The terrier of the Down Survey map of Athlacca Parish recorded that 'upon Athlacka & Ballincurragh stands two Castles' (NLI, MS 718). This castle stood on lands belonging to George Thornton (ibid.).
See attached Down Survey barony map
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 30 April 2021
References
Westropp, T.J. 1906-7 The ancient castles of the county of Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26, 54-264.
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.