Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballygibbon, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygibbon
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ballygibbon Ho.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballygibbon House
- SMR number
- TN015-101----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight rise of ground in undulating countryside. The Civil Survey (1654-6) mentions 'an old ruined castle' in the parish of Ballygibbon (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 222-3). Ballygibbon House, a two-pile, five-bay building of probable nineteenth-century date, may stand on the site of this castle. According to the occupant there is no early fabric or tradition of a castle associated with this house. The interior was not viewed. Ballygibbon Castle is depicted on the 1654-7 Down Survey map of Ballygibbon parish (NLI MS721). On this map it is shown located E of Ballygibbon Church (TN015-102001-) in the E quadrant of the townland close to woody bogland. The precise location of this castle within the townland of Ballygibbon has not been identified.
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.
NLI, MS 721 – National Library of Ireland , The parish maps of the Down Survey of County Tipperary, attested by Wm. Petty in 1657. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 67 maps with accompanying terriers, 1786-7. Dublin.