Bawn in Greenane, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

The precise location of a castle (LI014-104----) and bawn in the townland of Greenane, parish of Caherconlish has not been identified. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Owen Clanchie, English proprietor and a member of the States army, Charles Clancie of London, John Clancie, Irish Papist and Simon Clancie, Irish Papist were the owners of lands which contained the 'Castle town and lands of Grenane voughtragh, the third p[ar]te of the said Castle Bawne and twentie acres of the said lands belongeth to the said Owen' (Simington 1938, 65).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI014-104001

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