Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballygarrane (kilmore Par., South Riding), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygarrane (kilmore Par., South Riding)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- TS052-040----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Castle depicted in this area on the Strafford Survey of 1637 (NLI 16.I.17[13]) and mentioned in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'on the lands of Ballyngarrane, The ould Walls of a destroyed castle irrepairable' (Simington 1934, vol.2, 90). The castle was provisionally located to Grovestown House, however, this is a two-storey early to mid-18th-century L-plan farmhouse with no remains of any earlier fabric.The castle remains unlocated within the townland.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1934 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. II: county of Tipperary - Western and Northern baronies. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.