Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballinamore, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinamore
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ballina House
- Latest-edition OS map
- Anner Castle
- Coordinates
- 52.38445, -7.62327
- SMR number
- TS077-089----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On level ground on a NW-facing slope, with the Anner river c. 100m to the NW. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'the stump of an old castle neere the River Annor' and the proprietor in 1640 is listed as 'Phillip Walle of Newtowne-Annor. gent. Irish Papist' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 274). The present castle was built in the 1860s by Rev. N. H. Mandeville and according to Bence-Jones (1988, 5) incorporated 'the old square castle of the Mandeville family which had up to then been known as Ballinahy'. The castle was burnt in 1926 and only the front part was rebuilt (ibid.). The castle is built on a square plan with two 19th-century octangonal battlemented towers to the front and two rectangular battlemented towers incorporated in the rear. The latter survive as a shell and are overgrown with ivy. It is possible that the original castle was incorporated in the SW tower (ext. Wth 15.6m E-W) as the masonry in this tower is rubble limestone whereas the rest of the building is composed of irregular limestone blocks.
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.
Bence-Jones, M. 1988 A guide to Irish country houses. London
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.