Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballydrehid, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydrehid
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- TS075-027001-
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a natural rise overlooking the Suir river valley there is a castle depicted on the 17th-century Down Survey map (1655-8) which is referred to as 'the old brocken Castle of Bealladrohid' in the Civil Survey (1654-6) (Simington 1931, vol.1, 15). An early 18th-century house 'Ballydrehid House' (TS075-027003-) stands in the vicinty of the former castle. The river mets up with the Aherlow River immediately below the house and there is a steep drop to the river bank to the NE. Knockgraffon motte (TS075-019001-) is visible on the hill opposite the river c. 1.3km to the NE. A large mound (TS075-025----) on the river plain is visible c. 500m to the NNE. There is no visible trace of the castle above ground. However, a worked block of stone with horizontal tooling in margins and internal pock tooling is currently re-used as a quoin on an outbuilding adjacent to the gate pier at the main entrance. This is likely to have come from a tower house. Though the tower house was located in the vicinity of Ballydrehid House, its precise location is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 07 July 2014
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.