Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement cluster
Killaghy, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaghy
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- TS063-027----
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The National Monuments Service's description
In demesne at end of a long entrance driveway, surrounded by pasture. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) on lands owned by 'James Tobyn of Killaghy Irish Papist' in 1640 there stood 'a castle lately repaired at ye States charge with a bawne, two thatcht houses within the same & 12 houses & cabbins abroad' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 136). Smyth (1985, 133) refers to Killaghy as one of several garrisons which were established to destroy any remaining resistance forces that survived into the late 1650s. The settlement is not visible at ground level and is currently unlocated, though it is likely to be in the vicinity of Killaghy tower house (TS063-027001-).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1931 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol I: county of Tipperary: eastern and southern baronies. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Smyth, W. 1985 Property, patronage and population - reconstructing the human geography of mid-seventeenth century County Tipperary. In W. Nolan (ed.), Tipperary: history and society, 104-38. Dublin. Geography Publications.