Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Rathduff (cullen Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathduff (cullen Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Cullen Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cullen Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.51296, -8.27258
- SMR number
- TS058-028----
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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
In grassland on top of high ground with good views in all directions, nearby stream 50m to the S. Well (TS058-027----) 97m to SW, church (TS058-025----) and graveyard (TS058-025001-) 270m to SW and second well (TS058-026----) 209m to the W.No surface remains visible. 19th-century castle cottage to the N of the castle has some medieval cut stone in its fabric, it is likely that this cottage is built from the stonework of castle. Single arch stone of a sandstone arch possibly from the castle is lying on the ground in the SW corner of the field. Referred to in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'a castle in good repayre & a mill wth sevall thatcht houses inhabitted' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 56). Barnaby Earle of Thomond was listed as the proprietor of the lands in 1640 with Gamaliell Warters as the leasee of the lands (ibid.). This castle is mentioned in the Annals of the Four Masters in the year 1579 (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 9). In 1840 there were no remains of the castle visible (ibid.).
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.
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1934 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. II: county of Tipperary - Western and Northern baronies. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.