Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Ballymackey, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymackey
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.87601, -8.08464
- SMR number
- TN021-023002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as the 'walls of a castle onely standinge with a little Barbicon' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 223). Sir John MaGrath is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). The OS Namebooks (c. 1840) refer to 'an old house adjoining the S side of Ballymackey old castle it seems to have been at one time a place of some account but it is now in a state of total ruins'. An Foras Forbartha refer to a possible addition to the tower house (TN021-023001) to form a H-shaped house (Craig 1972, 55). No visible remains.
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
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.