Castle - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

In grassland on SW-facing slope of rising ground in upland area overlooking low wet marshy land to S and W, higher ground to N. Ringfort (TS058-041----) 270m to S and church and graveyard (TS058-060---- and TS058-060001-) 430m to SW. Not visible at ground level. Long linear feature which may be an old field bank running N and then returns E and appears to enclose the area of the castle may be the wall-footings of a bawn wall running from field boundary to S of castle. Described in the OS letters as 'an old castle called by the people Caislean Lachtnainn(Lochna) - Castleloughnan - but there remains of it at present only a heap of small stones and mortar, all the large stones having been carried away for building houses.' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 10).

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.