Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Kyle (solloghodbeg Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kyle (solloghodbeg Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- TS059-140----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Unlocated castle within the townland of Kyle in the parish of Solloghodbeg as indicated on 17th-century Down Survey (1655-6) map for the area and described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'On the lands of Ratheene stands a stumpe of a castle out of repayre' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 55). No townland known as Ratheene or Raheen on the OS six inch sheet 58, Raheen Upper and Lower are on six inch sheet 59.
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.