What is recorded here

Ballymurreen castle and bawn vanished beneath a nineteenth-century house and modern outhouses on flat Tipperary pasture. The Civil Survey of 1654-6 called the site an old castle and bawn out of repair, while local tradition still points to a nearby two-storey gabled building as the castle kitchen because of its large fireplace and north-wall chimney. The castle itself left no visible remains, yet the kitchen story keeps its heat alive in the ordinary land.

Situated on flat pasture in undulating countryside with a nearby church (TN048-015) to the W. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as an 'old castle and Bawne out of repaire' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 67). Described in the OS Letters as a small two-storey gabled building with a large fireplace and a chimney in the N wall which according to local tradition was the kitchen of the castle (TN048-016001) (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 90-91). No visible remains of the castle (TN048-016002) and bawn at ground level. They were probably replaced by the nineteenth-century house and modern outhouses. 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

The castle was likely built by an Irish Gaelic family in the medieval period and is remembered for its mention in the 17th-century Civil Survey, indicating its status as a ruin by the mid-1600s.

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