Castle - tower house

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a break in a NE-facing slope in gently rolling pastureland, overlooking a boggy plain to the N, with the site of an enclosure (TN017-067002-) c. 42m to the SE. The Civil Survey of 1654-6 simply refers to 'the walls of an old Bawne' and lists 'Thomas Magher of Bollybane Esqr. Irish Papist' as proprietor (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 9). According to the OS Letters the 'Castle or keep stood at the south east end where its foundations are still indistinctly traceable' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 82). The ITA Survey of 1943 mentions 'foundations of several outbuildings' to the S (OPW files), no remains of which are now visible. The N and E walls of the bawn (TN017-067001-) are fairly intact, built of roughly coursed sandstone rubble with poor sandy-clay pebble mortar. Low mounds in the interior do not conform to any recognisable pattern.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.

Date of upload: 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.

Irish Tourist Association. Surveys undertaken in the 1940s for the Irish Tourist Association (now Fáilte Ireland) relating to ‘Natural features, antiquities, historic associations etc.' Extracts from these surveys were copied into the Topographical files of the Office of Public Works and these have been incorporated into the Sites and Monuments Record files (National Monuments Service).

Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1931 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol I: county of Tipperary: eastern and southern baronies. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.