Ballyhaugh Castle (in ruins) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Ballyhaugh Castle stood on a low rise in County Tipperary until high winds brought the tower down on January 6th, 1839. The collapse buried most of the structure in rubble, leaving only the lower jambs of the main doorway visible in the south wall. That sudden violence erased the lobby, mural stairs and guardroom from clear view, turning a inhabited home into a buried shadow.

Situated on a low rise of ground with good views in all directions. The poorly preserved remains of a tower house now totally covered in collapsed rubble making detailed examination impossible. The only features visible are the lower jambs of the main doorway located in the centre of the S wall. This led into a lobby with a two-centred doorway directly in front, with chamfered and finely punch-dressed jambs, which gave access to the ground floor. The mural stairs in the W end of the S wall and a small guardroom in the SE angle were also accessed from the lobby. A single-light ogee-headed window has been inserted into the E gable of a shed to the N of the tower house. According to the OS Letters the tower collapsed in the high winds of January 6th, 1839 (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 28). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

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