Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Fennor, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fennor
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fennor Castle (in Ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fennor Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.70944, -7.59745
- SMR number
- TS043-003001-
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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
The Civil Survey (1654-6) describes 'The Castle and Bawne of Fenor inhabited' as 'a good castle' with Pierce Butler listed as proprietor of the lands in 1640 (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 101, 120). It is situated on high ground, in pasture, with good views in all directions. A church (TS043-003003-) and graveyard (TS043-003004-) are located 130m to the SW. The castle and associated bawn (TS043-003002-) are not visible at ground level. The castle is described in the OS Letters as 'a high but slender fragment ….Only a part of the north and west walls of this building remains, five feet ten inches [1.8m] in thickness and about forty feet [12m] in height' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 160). According to the OS Letters a house was built at the foot of the castle by the Turvin family which appears to have been abandoned in the early 1700s (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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.
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
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.