Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Ballinamona (oughterleague Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinamona (oughterleague Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballinamona Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.52323, -7.99851
- SMR number
- TS060-044----
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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 flat level ground in the farmyard behind a derelict single-storey farmhouse. In the Civil Survey (1654-6) this is described as 'one small destroyed castle repaireable' under the proprietorship in 1640 of 'Edmond Dwyer of Mores-towne Irish Papist' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 91). It is depicted on the 1st (1840-41) ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular building, but by the late 19th century all that survived was 'a little bit of wall which forms part of the out offices, attached to the residence' (Davis White 1892, 54). However, Davis White (1892, 54) recorded that in living memory of the then owner 'the Castle was several stories high, and that it was round … The under part had been used as a cow house in his younger days'. There is now no trace of the castle above ground but it is likely that it was a late 16th-century tower house, similar to other circular tower houses in the area.
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.
White, J.D. 1892 Anthologia Tipperariensis. Cashel.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.