What is recorded here

Castle is a lost Desmond tower in Garryfine, County Limerick, not a castle at all but a small peel house with a broken top and a later dwelling joined to it. The Down Survey showed it near the centre of the townland, yet no stone or marker remains to point at now. It may have stood where a field rises slightly or where a hedge bends without reason. A high roof and chimneys suggest someone still lived beside the tower when its military purpose had faded.

Desmond castle shown approximately in centre of this townland on Down Survey map (depicted as a small tower) but its exact location is now lost; it was described in 17th century as 'a broken-topped peel tower with an attached dwelling-house having a high roof and chimneys' (Westropp 1906-7, 231). Description suggests a later medieval tower house with an early-17th century addition. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Built by the Fitzgeralds of Desmond in the 14th or 15th century, Castle Garryfine was a minor defensive structure in a region central to the Desmond Rebellions of the 16th century, reflecting the turbulent Anglo-Irish conflicts of the period.

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