What is recorded here

Indicated, Town Parks is a bawn at the east end of County Tipperary, where two tower houses rose beside the River Suir after a convent and castle had already marked the ground. The blocked sallyport still points south through the wall, preserving the old escape route toward water while the town has grown around the stone. It is not a polished monument but a lived edge, where butler power, religious memory and river trade all collided before becoming ordinary parkland.

At the E end of town, E of Castle Street, on the N bank of the River Suir. The Butler castle (TS085-004001-) is said to have been built in 1309 on the site of a Poor Clare convent (TS085-004003-)(Killan and Duignan 1967, 143). In the 15th century, c. 1445, two tower houses were erected, supposedly by Eamonn mac Risterd Butler (Empey 1982, 207). In the latter half of the 16th century, c. 1565, a tudor mansion (TS085-004002-) was added to the complex. The bawn wall extends S from both the SE angle of the E tower and the SW angle of the W tower, with a sallyport, now blocked, in the middle of the S wall giving access to the river. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

The Butler family built a castle at Indicated, Town Parks in 1309, replacing a former Poor Clare convent. It is remembered for its historical transition from a religious site to a stronghold of one of Ireland's most influential noble families.

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