Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Brittas (thurles Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brittas (thurles Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Brittas Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Brittas Castle (in ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.70455, -7.81415
- SMR number
- TN041-012001-
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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
Situated on flat terrain in Brittas Demesne. The original castle was burnt c.1820 (Bence-Jones 1988, 48, 293) and the landowner intended replacing it with a full-scale replica of Warwick Castle. This venture was started but never finished due to the tragic death of the landowner. A sketch of the original castle in the possession of the present landowner shows three towers, two square, one circular, with intervening buildings, possibly built onto the bawn wall (TN041-012002-). The towers are approximately four storeys high with crenellated battlements and hood-mouldings over flat-headed windows and may have been part of the bawn defences. The bawn was mentioned in the Civil Survey (1654-6) (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 55). There is now a nineteenth-century house built on the site.
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.
Bence-Jones, M. 1988 A guide to Irish country houses. London
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.