Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballyclerahan, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyclerahan
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- TS076-016001-
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The National Monuments Service's description
The Civil Survey (1654-6) refers to the proprietor of Ballyclerahan as 'Paule Boyton Ballycleraghane gent Irish Papist...Upon the sd lands stands a little castle' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 313). This castle is unlocated, but is likely to have been located close to the former village and medieval parish church. Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 128), describes the parish of Ballyclerahan as being 'chiefly remarkable for its castle of great strength, said to have been built by Mocklerough More, or the "great Mockler," …this castle, opposite to which the Butler family erected a strong fortress on their own estate, was besieged by Cromwell …the remains consist of a lofty square tower in one of the angles of the court, which is enclosed with very strong walls of stone; also part of a dwelling-house within the area, and, on the outside, the ruins of a chapel near the gateway'. There is no castle surviving in Ballyclerahan. The above description probably refers to another castle.
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.
Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.