Knigh Castle (in ruins) — Report the wrong picture

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Knigh Castle is a ruined limestone tower house on a south-facing hillside in County Tipperary, where only the north wall and four-storey northwest angle tower still rise above pasture. The surviving angle tower holds a barrel vault, two small private stair wells, and three windows of different shapes, while the rest of the building has sunk back into the earth. A shallow ditch and earthen mound still mark the base of the site, suggesting the castle was set apart from the land as much as built upon it. What is gone is easier to imagine than what remains: a household moving through narrow rooms, looking out over open field, leaving behind a tower sharp enough to be remembered long after the walls disappeared.

Situated on the S-facing slope of a hill in pasture. A possible moated site (TN014-049001-) is located immediately N of the tower house and a circular enclosure lies S of it, though neither are visible above ground. The projecting NW angle tower and length of N wall (T 0.9m) are all that survive of this limestone tower house. The foundations of the remainder can be followed to some extent. The full S length of the tower house is c. 9.1m and the W wall is c. 12m long. The angle tower is four storeys high. It has the remains of a barrel vault over the first floor and two garderobes in the N wall at first-floor level. Surviving fenestration in the angle tower consists of one simple slit, one ogee-headed and one flat-headed window. There is no evidence of a doorway. FitzPatrick (1985, vol. 2, part 4, 13-24) notes that the tower house was built on an earthen mound, best preserved in the SE and SW quadrants, the latter being c. 1.8m above external ground level. Portion of a fosse (Wth 3m) survives around the base of the mound with a causeway at SSW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

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