Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Lagganstown Upper, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lagganstown Upper
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.46503, -7.96527
- SMR number
- TS068-059001-
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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 slight rise in generally undulating terrain, in a farmyard with a disused house, the bawn (TS068-059002-) forming the farmyard boundary along the S and SW sides while the N wall of the bawn is forms the back wall of a range of farm buildings. The yard has been concreted with a concrete lean-to against the S wall with a corrugated-iron roof. There is a large concrete cattle shed in the southern sector of the bawn. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) 'James Earle of Ormond' was the proprietor of 'Lagganstowne' in 1640 and 'Uppon the sd lands stands a Castle wanting repayre wth a Bawne & some thatcht cabbins' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 10). According to the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 84) 'There seems to have been a square tower at the northeast corner of this bawn but it is now destroyed'. Though much of the bawn still survives there is no visible trace of the castle above ground.
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.
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
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.