Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
Oldcastle (bourney Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldcastle (bourney Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.90068, -7.85212
- SMR number
- TN017-050001-
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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
Located on a natural hillock which appears to have been scarped to the N and W to give a steeper profile. The immediate terrain at the base of the hillock is wet and marshy. The ground level rises to the W and NE. The site consists of a roughly square-shaped mound or possible ringwork (TN017-050002-) delimited by a stone wall or bawn, best preserved in the NW and SW angles and along the S side of the site where it forms a revetment for the mound. The wall (int. H 2m; ext. H 3.4m; T 1m) is composed of roughly coursed sandstone rubble with quartz inclusions, utilising both flat and rounded boulders. No visible remains of the long rectangular building indicated on the 1901-5 OS 6-inch map along the interior of the bawn on the S side. A possible structure in the NW angle of the site appears as collapsed walling in a roughly horseshoe shape. The Civil Survey (1654-6) describes this as 'a stumpe of a castle' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 7).
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.) 1931 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol I: county of Tipperary: eastern and southern baronies. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.