What is recorded here

Slainstown Castle is a three-storey limestone tower house on a flat-topped ridge in County Tipperary, still standing with thick walls, battlements and a collapsed southwest corner that exposes its old garderobe chute. It belongs to the world of modest Irish tower houses, where a murder hole guarded the east doorway, a narrow staircase climbed inside the south wall, and slop-stones projected from the wall for the ordinary business of living. In 1640 it belonged to Thomas Vynn of Fethard, marked in the Civil Survey as an Irish Papist, placing this small stronghold inside the dangerous politics of 17th-century Ireland. Today it overlookes pasture and distance, not as a grand palace but as a sharp local monument to minor gentry, defence and survival.

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

Slainstown Castle was built by the Butler family, Earls of Ormond, during the 15th century. It is remembered as a strategic stronghold in the control of south-eastern Ireland during the late medieval period.