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Castle - tower house

Ballydavid (Twomileborris Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Ballydavid (Twomileborris Par.), 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
Ballydavid (Twomileborris Par.)
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Castle
Latest-edition OS map
Castle (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.64053, -7.73479
SMR number
TN048-011----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a low rise of ground in undulating countryside. Described in the Civil Survey of 1654-6 as the 'walls of a stone house' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 48). James Earl of Ormond is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). Only a small portion of the N wall of a destroyed tower house survives, now incorporated into the outhouses of nineteenth-century Ballydavid House. A single-light, ogee-headed limestone window on the external face of the N wall at first-floor level is the only architectural feature 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

Nearby in the register

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

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