What is recorded here

Tooreen Castle vanished before modern memory, leaving only a stump and orchard beside six acres in County Limerick. Edmund Hickie held that small estate during the Civil Survey, yet local tradition kept whispering about the castle until 1874. The place escapes identification because it stopped being a visible building long before it stopped being a story.

The precise location of Tooreen Castle has not been identified. Westropp (1906-7, 167) recorded the following details about Tooreen Castle; '1641 Edm. Hickie, of Tourine, and W. Leo, of Tullyvin, hanged some of the inmates of Croom C[astle]. (Dep., 383). 1655 Tworin, in Croom, stump of a C[astle]. Edm. Hickie (C.S., xxiv., p. 30). There was some tradition of a C[astle]. there down to 1874. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Edmund Hickie of Tooreen, an Irish Papist, was the owner of 'six greate accres with two houses, the stump of a castle one Eele weare [LI030-188----] out of repaire, and an orchard' (Simington 1938, 140). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 December 2020

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