House - fortified house

The National Monuments Service's description

On a low rise of ground on flat pasture with good views in all directions. Clogher Castle (TS046-038----) lies 300m to the ESE and Clogher Church (TS046-039----) lies 400m to the SSE. The poorly preserved remains of a three storey 17th-century fortified L-plan house constructed from roughly coursed limestone rubble with a base-batter. Only the NW end of the building survives with the partial remains of the NW (L 6.9m; overall L 8.6m; wall T 1m) and NE (L 4.3m) walls surviving with a two-storey garderobe tower (int. dims. 1.85m N-S; 1.55m E-W; wall T 0.6m) at the N angle. The ground floor is accessed from a destroyed doorway (Wth 1.4m) at the N end of the NW wall with a bar slot visible in the thickness of the NW wall. A slit ope window is visible in the NW wall, with a possible gun loop on either side of the window embrasure. All floors were wooden carried on floor joists. The garderobe tower was accessed from a narrow segmental-arched doorway in the N angle at first-floor level with an internal rebate for the door frame. There is a destroyed window in the NW wall with a possible destroyed oriel window at the E end of the NE wall. The latter feature appears to be corbelled out beyond the external face of the NE wall at first-floor level with the garderobe tower supporting the NW side of this feature. Only the NW embrasure of this feature survives making precise identification impossible. There was a possible lean-to roof over the garderobe. No cut stone survives in the window surrounds. It was described in the OS Letters (1840) as a small fragment of a castle (O'Flanagan 1930, vol.1, 104).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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.