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Castle - unclassified

Ballyvadin (Magorban Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Ballyvadin (Magorban Par.), County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyvadin (Magorban Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.50173, -7.74951
SMR number
TS062-143----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In improved pasture, on a very gentle S-facing slope. The Civil Survey 1654-56 (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 200) mentions 'a small castle wanting repaire' on the lands of 'George Comyn of Ballyvadin Irish Papist'. A rectangular enclosure (TS062-076----), possibly the bawn of this castle, was indentified on an aerial photograph (GSI S.625/4 16/04/1974). This area is known locally as the 'castle yard' due to its association with the site of Ballyvadin Castle, which is depicted within this vicinity on the Down Survey composite map (1655-58). According to local information, when the field to the E was levelled out, lots of masonry was exposed where the castle was previously understood to have existed and some of this stone was used in the building of farm buildings c. 170m to the ENE. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 173) refer to 'an old castle in Ballyvadin Townland which fell one night at the very moment on which the former proprietor of this land, who was a Quaker, departed this life. The site is pointed out at the distance of about twenty five perches [c. 126m] to east of the road that runs between Thurles and Clonmel'.

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.) 1931 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol I: county of Tipperary: eastern and southern baronies. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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