Why this matters
John Purcell held Castle Cranagh in 1640, and it was described as ruined by the Civil Survey of 1654–5. It is remembered as a minor example of early modern Irish castle architecture.
Overview
Castle — Cranagh is recorded as Bawn in Tipperary. Situated on flat pasture in undulating countryside. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as the 'ruines of an old castle' (Simington 1931, vol.
Who built and held it
The saved account records: A circular tower house (TN029-087001) built with roughly coursed limestone rubble which now stands three storeys high but originally stood higher and was probably truncated in the eighteenth century by the occupants of a nearby Georgian house.
Attack, change and use
The saved account records: Situated on flat pasture in undulating countryside.
What survives
The saved account records: An eighteenth-century bawn located to the S of the tower house possibly incorporates part of the original bawn with a possible seventeenth-century gable-ended thatched house incorporated into the E wall of the bawn.
Why it mattered
Castle — Cranagh matters because the source ties bawn to this exact landscape and preserves evidence that a bare map name loses. The saved account adds: Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as the 'ruines of an old castle' (Simington 1931, vol.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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