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What is recorded here

Moyneard Castle stands as a ruined three-storey tower on a narrow ridge in County Tipperary, its rubble walls still leaning outward despite losing height and roof. A nearby ringfort and faint earthworks suggest the tower once anchored a larger defended home where people lived, worked and watched the valley. The missing rooms do not disappear; they redraw themselves in memory, turning stone and shadow into a house that never fully left.

Situated on a N-S ridge in undulating countryside with a nearby ringfort (TN036-040) to the N. A three-storey tower house (TN036-041001), which originally stood higher, built with coursed rubble stone with prominent batter. The earthworks to the W and N of the tower house appear to be the wall-footings of a bawn wall and a rectangular building (ext. dims. 13m N-S; 15.5m E-W) respectively. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Built in the late 15th or early 16th century, Moyneard Castle was likely constructed by a local Gaelic noble family as a defensive stronghold. Its importance lies in its association with the regional power struggles of the period and its well-preserved tower house architecture, offering insight into early modern Irish castle design.

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