Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Rapla North, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rapla North
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.89462, -8.16816
- SMR number
- TN015-095001-
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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 hilltop, the summit of which appears to be scarped to form a roughly circular platform (dims. 48m N-S; 56m E-W; H 1.15m) for the castle. The site is indicated as being levelled on both the 1st and 2nd ed. OS 6-inch maps and is mentioned in the Civil Survey as being 'a demolished Castle; the old rotten. Walls standing with two Cabbins' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 252). No visible trace survives above ground level. The platform on which it stood has been much disturbed in recent years, partially levelled and quarried, giving an uneven surface. A stone, barrel-vaulted icehouse was built into the W side of the platform and is indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map.
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
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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.