Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Knockanrawley, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockanrawley
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.47299, -8.15701
- SMR number
- TS067-004002-
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
On a height in the SE section of the town, c. 100m NE of the River Ara. Corporation housing and warehouses constructed since 1954 currently occupy the location. This castle is not indicated on the 1st (1840) ed. 6-inch OS map and on the 25-inch map it is designated as ‘King John’s Castle (Supposed site of)’ with hachures depicting the SE portion of an inner and outer curving scarp, with a suggestion that the scarp continues on both sides northward beneath modern property boundaries. There are no known historical references to this castle and as there are no visible remains at ground level it is not possible to ascertain the nature or date of this castle.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 09 June 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Schoolunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian friarsunder 1 mi
- Town defencesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.