What is recorded here

Carriganea Castle perches on a limestone knoll thirty feet above the marshes of Ballyshonickbane, its surviving ivy-covered walls reaching eighteen feet into the sky. The rectangular tower faced approach through bogland and a curving watercourse, creating a defensive position that held the attention of the Knight of Glin and later rebel Thomas Came. Although the foundations of two walls have vanished entirely, the remaining fragments still mark the boundary where human ambition met the resisting landscape.

Carriganea Castle is recorded as a castle in County Limerick. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.

Carriganea Castle was built in the 15th century by the Fitzgerald family, the powerful Earls of Kildare, during the period of English expansion in Munster. It is remembered as part of the network of strongholds used to assert control over the region and resist Gaelic Irish resurgence.