Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Cloghprior, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghprior
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloghprior Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghprior House
- Coordinates
- 52.95249, -8.21009
- SMR number
- TN009-047----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on flat pasture with extensive views in all directions. Marked as 'Cloghprior Castle' on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. No visible evidence of any castle mentioned in the Civil Survey 1654-56 as a 'ruined castle the walls onely standing', (Simington 1934, Vol. 2, 341) in the area. The present Cloghprior House was built a few metres to the SE of the building marked as 'Cloghprior Castle' on the 1st. ed. OS 6-inch map. According to owner of Cloghprior House there is a local tradition of a castle next to the house (SMR file 1991).
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.
Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 6 July 2016
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1934 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. II: county of Tipperary - Western and Northern baronies. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.