Ballycar Castle
| Ballycar Castle | ||
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_by_Thomas_Dineley.jpg) Ruin of Ballycar Castle from the southeast (sketch by Thomas Dineley, 1680) |
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| Alternative name (s): | Ballycarby Castle Caisleán Bhaile at Chathraigh |
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| Creation time : | before 1570 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | worn away | |
| Standing position : | Irish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Newmarket-on-Fergus | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 45 '50.6 " N , 8 ° 52' 27.9" W | |
| Height: | 26 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Ballycar Castle (also called Ballycarby Castle , Irish Caisleán Bhaile an Chathraigh ) was a castle in the parish of Newmarket-on-Fergus on the road between Limerick and Galway , about 5 km away from Sixmilebridge , 14 km from Limerick and 11 km from Ennis im Irish County Clare . It is said to have been built before 1570 and was already in ruins before 1681 when it was sketched by the English historian Thomas Dingley (or Dineley ).
history
Ballycar Castle is said to have been built at the behest of Connor McHugh-McLoghlin-McNamara , but does not appear in the list of castles from 1570. In 1580 it belonged to Donogh O'Brien . In 1620 the castle and two Carucatas lands were placed in the care of the Earl of Thomond . In 1655 Ballycar Castle, "as previously held by the late George Colpoys ," leased from the Earl of Thomond to John Colpoys on the condition that he provided an armed Protestant rider for a month. This lease was converted into a fief in 1714 and passed to female heirs in the 1890s.
The castle was already in ruins when Thomas Dineley sketched it in 1680, and disappeared entirely in the 1890s. The house that was built on this site and eventually inhabited by an official was a ruin without a roof at the time.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b William Gerrard Ryan: A Survey of Monuments of Archaeological and Historical Interest in the Barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare: Part 4: Castles and tower houses c.1500 (master thesis archeology). Chapter 45: Tomfinlough Parish: Ballycar Castle (tower house?) (Site of) . University College Cork. 1980. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d James Frost: The history and topography of the county of Clare, from the earliest times to the beginning of the 18th century. Chapter XXVIII: The Journal of Thomas Dineley, 1681. p. 541 . Sealy, Bryers, & Walker. Dublin 1893. Retrieved May 9, 2018.