Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Killerk North, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killerk North
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- (Site of) Killerk Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killerk Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.44440, -7.71370
- SMR number
- TS070-071001-
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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
The Civil Survey (1654-6) describes castles which are 'altogether downe onely the Walls [standing], Killerck castle [is] in like condition' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 158) and records that 'Nicholas Everard of Fethard Esqr' was proprietor in 1640, when again the castle is described as 'an old broken castle' (ibid, 197). In pasture, on a gentle SW-facing slope. No visible surface trace. Depicted as site of Killerk Castle on the 1903-04 edition OS six-inch map, within W-side of enclosure (TS070-071002-).
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.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.