What is recorded here

Camas Castle vanished before it was ever drawn, leaving behind only a name repeated in lists while the land itself refused to show the stones. It passed from abbey grange to rebel browsers, then to widowed entitlement and military survey, each owner certain they knew the place and none able to point at it. That uncertainty is the shape of the castle now: a room with no walls, where ownership is remembered but location has escaped.

The precise location of Camas Castle has not been identified. Westropp (1906-7, 177) recorded the following details about Camas Castle; '1185 Camas from early times belonged to Monasteranenagh Abbey, being a Grange of same. 1583 T. and J. Browne held Camas C[astle]. in Grean, at the time of their joining the rebellion of Ger., Earl of Desmond (Des. R., p. 67; Inq. Exch., 11). 1613 Sir J. Jephson held, among the possessions of the dissolved religious houses, Camus cell, chapel, and glebe, in right of his wife (Inq. Chan., 5a). In 1655, shown as in Glenogra (B.S.A., 35). Afterwards held by the Bevans'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 10 December 2020

Camas Castle was held by Monasteranenagh Abbey from early times, serving as a grange by 1185. It is remembered for its historical association with the Cistercian abbey, reflecting the monastic landholdings and agricultural estates of medieval Ireland.

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