What is recorded here
The precise location of Ballybrown Castle in the townland of Ballybrown has not been identified. Castle not depicted and is not named on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Westropp (1906-7, 148) recorded the following details about this castle; '1583 C[astle]. named. 1655 Held by Marg. Bryne and G. Comyn (C.S., p. 23 ; D.S.B., 26)'. There is no mention of a castle in this townland in the 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick (Simington 1938, 386).
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 8 July 2020
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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