Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Camus (st. Patricksrock Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Camus (st. Patricksrock Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Camus Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Camus Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.53871, -7.93302
- SMR number
- TS060-026001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 level pasture. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6), in 1640, 'Archybald Lord Archbishopp of Cashell', was owner of the 'Manor Court & lands of Camus halfe a colpe', 'Upon the s[ai]d lands stands a large stone house with a bawne about it' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 376). The OS Letters (1840) describe the two mural towers on the bawn (TS060-026003-) as the, 'small remains of two square castles' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 118 (312-13). White (1892, 16) also mentions the remains of the bawn and that 'Archbishop Malcolm Hamilton died at his house at Camas, 25th April, 1629'. There is no visible of the castle at ground level, though traces of the bawn and one mural tower are visible.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 22 July 2014
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.
White, J.D. 1892 Anthologia Tipperariensis. Cashel.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.