Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballingarry Lower, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballingarry Lower
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.58890, -7.56010
- SMR number
- TS055-015----
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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
On poorly drained unreclaimed grassland on high ground in upland area with good views in all directions, nearby stream to the N of the castle. Nearby church and graveyard (TS055-016001- and TS055-016002-) 160m to SE and watermill (TS055-014----) 200m to NW. Poorly preserved remains of a castle consisting of the scattered and confused remains of grass-covered wall-footings of castle located in the corner of a field. Monument consists of a low grass-covered mound (H 0.3m; diam. 30m N-S 30m; 24m E-W) of stone which appears to have been quarried into in places at SE and SW. Three field boundaries intersect mound at SE, S and SW as depicted on latest ed. OS 6-inch map. Field in which castle is located has been unreclaimed and would contain undisturbed archaeology. Nicholas Fanning of Ballingarry is listed as proprietor in 1640 and is described as a 'good castle with a tatcht house & some cabbins and a Mill standing upon a little brooke neare the castle' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 113).
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.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.