Why this matters
John Purcell held Castle Cranagh in 1640, and it was described as ruined by the Civil Survey of 1654–5. It is remembered as a minor example of early modern Irish castle architecture.
What is recorded here
Situated on flat pasture in undulating countryside. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as the 'ruines of an old castle' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 28). John Purcell is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). A circular tower house (TN029-087001) built with roughly coursed limestone rubble which now stands three storeys high but originally stood higher and was probably truncated in the eighteenth century by the occupants of a nearby Georgian house. An eighteenth-century bawn located to the S of the tower house possibly incorporates part of the original bawn with a possible seventeenth-century gable-ended thatched house incorporated into the E wall of the bawn.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
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