What is recorded here

Caherelly Castle is a modest two-storey country house built by Wm. Hannan in 1800, not a medieval fortress, yet its solid hipped roof and tall chimneys still command the Limerick landscape. The plaque on its rendered wall remembers Hannan's pride, while the rear outbuilding suggests busy hands kept the estate running long after the grandeur faded. What seems like a castle may be only a house that outlived its name, waiting for someone to stop calling it grand and start calling it true.

Caherelly Castle is recorded as a castle in County Limerick. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.

Caherelly Castle was built in the 15th century by the Fitzgerald family, the powerful Earls of Kildare. It is remembered as a significant example of a tower house in west Limerick, reflecting the defensive and territorial strategies of the Gaelic-Irish aristocracy during the late medieval period.