Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Doughkill, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doughkill
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Carrig Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carrig Castle (in ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.06193, -7.97404
- SMR number
- TN005-030001-
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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
Situated on a gentle sloping hill with rough marshy land to the N and pasture to the S. Described in the OS Letters as a small square structure (24ft x 24ft (7.3m x 7.3m); wall T 4ft 4in (1.3m)) built with hammer-dressed limestone, the walls of which stand 14ft (4.2m) high. A small round tower (int. diam. 6ft 2in (1.9m)) with a conical cap was attached to the SE corner standing to a height of 17ft (5.2m) (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 79). The castle was demolished during a road widening scheme in 1973 (FitzPatrick 1985, vol. 2, 80). No visible remains at ground level.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Tipperary collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1840. Bray.
FitzPatrick, E. 1985 An archaeological survey of castles in the barony of Lower Ormond, vols. 1-4. Unpublished typescript. National Monuments Section, Heritage and Planning Division, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.