What is recorded here

Carneycastle stands as a four-storey tower ruin on flat Tipperary pasture, its western wall and attached bawn still framing a wide horizon. The surviving structure features a barrel-vaulted first floor, large corbels that once carried wooden floors, and a decorative round-arched gateway in the southern bawn wall. Inside the curved defensive enclosure, a later house and outhouse occupy the same protected space, suggesting the castle never fully stopped being a home. What is missing has not erased the place; the remaining walls still direct the eye across the field and mark the boundary between domestic life and open country.

Situated on flat pasture with extensive views. Present remains consist of the W wall of the tower house along with the W end of the N and S wall returns with no visible remains of the E wall. The surviving tower (TN010-052001) Is four storeys high with a barrel vault over the first floor; elsewhere the building had wooden floors carried on large corbels. A bawn wall is attached to the SW and NE corners of the tower house with a nineteenth-century house and outhouse located inside the bawn area (ext. dims. 34.6m E-W; 47m N-S; wall T 0.82m). The bawn wall is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble with base-batter. A round-arched gateway with rebated punch-dressed jambs and hood-moulding over an arch with decorated terminals is located at the centre of the S wall. 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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