What is recorded here

Knockagh Castle stands as a five-storey rubble tower on a low SE-facing slope in County Tipperary, still holding its murder-hole lobby and broken bawn wall. Sir John Morres owned the place in 1640, and the Civil Survey later called it an old castle inhabited yet wanting repair. The surrounding countryside keeps older ringforts to the north, suggesting people have defended this exact view for centuries.

Situated on a low SE-facing slope in undulating countryside with ringforts (TN029-056, TN029-058) to the N and a destroyed seventeenth-century house (TN029-059002) to the S. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'one old castle inhabited yett wanting repaire a broken bawne and the ruins of a stone house' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 58). Sir John Morres is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). A late sixteenth/seventeenth-century circular tower house (TN029-059001) built with roughly coursed rubble surviving five storeys high with attic above. The main entrance is via a destroyed two-centred doorway at W giving access to a lobby protected by an overhead murder-hole. The OS Letters describe a bawn wall with corner towers and a late seventeenth-century house (TN029-059002) immediately S of the castle, of which no traces survive (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 184). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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