Castle - tower house

The National Monuments Service's description

Located on level ground at the NE base of a natural rise. This possible tower house was knocked c. 15 years ago and all stone buried in an old limekiln. According to a landowner it stood at least two storeys high. A barn and concrete yard now occupy the site. Described in the OS Letters as 'the ruins of a square castle', of limestone, of which only the E side (L 22ft 6ins/6.9m) and 13ft (3.9m) of the N and S walls remain (H 28ft/8.4m). The doorway was on the E end but was destroyed by c. 1840. The first floor was supported on a stone arch of which only a fragment survived, with two flat-headed windows on the E side. (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 170)

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.