Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Rehill (shanrahan Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rehill (shanrahan Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Rehill Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rehill Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.32115, -8.03845
- SMR number
- TS081-045001-
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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
On top of the SW edge of a ridge which runs N-S and slopes gently to the SW, in pasture. The Glennyrea River is located c. 60m downslope to the SW. The Civil Survey (1654-6) refers to Redhill castle as 'a castle and some thatcht houses with a Bawne about them...the sd Castle, Bawne, and lands of Rehill (being a mannor) is appendant a Court-leet and a Court-Baron' (Simington 1931, vol.1, 374) and also mentions that 'the castle of Reighhill [was] lately repayred' (ibid., 260). On the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map a roughly square dashed area is depicted at the site of Rehill Castle, this may be an indication of the bawn (TS081-045002-). There is a short length of hachuring on the 2nd (1904-05) ed. OS 6-inch map but there is no visible trace of the castle above ground.
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
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.