What is recorded here
No exact point on the Limerick landscape still marks Ballywilliam Castle. What survives is a ghost address, a heap of ruins swallowed by time and memory. The castle vanished so completely that even its own townland forgot where it stood.
Exact location of Ballywilliam castle (Westropp 1906-7, 216) not known though described in 1840 as is 'Ballywilliam West Townland' and consisting of 'a confused heap of ruins' (OSL vol. 2, 63).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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