Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Oldcastle (Toem Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldcastle (Toem Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.58942, -8.18484
- SMR number
- TS051-001----
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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
On a slight rise of ground in undulating pasture with nearby stream to NW. An O'Dwyer Castle described in 1654 'as the stumpe of a castle' and in 1840 there was no trace of the castle (Seymour 1917, 40). It is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Seymour, Rev. St. J. 1917 Notes on a Tipperary parish. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 23, 36-42.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.