Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Cormackstown, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cormackstown
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Black Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Black Castle (in ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.66980, -7.88861
- SMR number
- TN041-050----
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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 in gently undulating terrain. Described in the OS Letters as 'the ruins of an old house or castle called Caislean Dubh or Black Castle' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 178). The site has been levelled and its site occupied by modern barns and sheds behind old farm buildings.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.