Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Outeragh, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Outeragh
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outeragh Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outeragh Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.41645, -7.88868
- SMR number
- TS076-010----
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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
Near crest of flat-topped ridge on SE facing slope. Main Cahir-Cashel section of Cork road runs NE-SW along top of ridge. Outeragh Church (TS075-018----) is located 200m to SW. The Civil Survey (1654-6) records William Butler, Irish Papist as being the proprietor in 1640 'of two acres on wch is a castle' at 'Owghteragh' (Simington 1931, vol.1, 236). Ruins of castle lie in small area of scrub (dims. 13m N-S; 24m E-W) with trees and other vegetation around the edge. Field under tillage. This fallow scrub area has been used to dump field clearance stones and dead wood. Six separate piles of collapsed masonry. Castle was of rubble limestone and sandstone construction, randomly coursed. Though the chunks of masonry have collapsed and are overgrown, flat faces are visible with returns, either for internal features such as embrasures, cupboards or wall returns. Wall thickness up to 1.2m.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.