What is recorded here

Lisnamrock is a vanished castle in County Tipperary, Ireland, remembered through a bawn, thatched houses and the name Edmond Marnell in 1640. The land still rises above grassland, exposing a place where stone may have been broken, carried and rebuilt into ordinary walls. What is missing is not nothing; it is the shape of the castle removed from the story.

In grassland on a SW-facing slope of rising ground in upland area with good views in all directions. 19th-century cottage with walled farmyard and walled orchard immediately NW of castle. No surface remains visible of bawn associated with castle (TS055-006001-) described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'a small castle with an old large bawne & two or three thatcht houses within the bawne' and Edmond Marnell is listed as owner of the castle and bawne in 1640 (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 114). The walled farmyard and the walled garden and 19th-century cottage to the NW of the castle may be built from the rubble of the castle. None of the masonry from the walled garden or the farmyard has appearance of a medieval bawn wall. The average wall thickness of the walled farmyard and the orchard wall measures 0.6m, with no evidence of a base-batter or any other medieval features. According to John Davis White (1892, 102) the castle was built 100 yards to the S of the old house of Lisnamrock. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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