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Castle - tower house

Tullahedy, County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Tullahedy, County Tipperary North, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tullahedy
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Tullahedy Castle (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Tullahedy Castle (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.85194, -8.23069
SMR number
TN020-074001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on natural rock outcrop in an upland area with extensive views. Only the NW angle of a poorly preserved tower house survives with a quarry immediately to the N. The tower is located within a nineteenth-century grove of trees with a modern water tower to the E. The castle walls are constructed with roughly coursed limestone rubble with base-batter. The OS Letters describe a mullioned and transomed window at the E end of the N wall with a destroyed window directly underneath (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 120), neither of which are visible.

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

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.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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