Ballinegarde Castle

Artist(s): Thomas Dineley (Draughtsman)

View of Ballynagarde Castle, south of Ballyneety, Co. Limerick. The castle consists of a tower house, with pitched roof and chimney, and adjoining mansarded buildings. The image is enclosed in an oval frame. <br>This castle is no longer extant. Its site is located just east of the ruins of Ballynagarde House, an 18th-century mansion built by the Croker family. <br>Source: <br>Archaeological Survey, at http://webgis.archaeology.ie/NationalMonuments/FlexViewer/, record LI022-051001. Accessed 14.12.2014.

Inscribed in Image

  • Caption within boundaries of image – <br>Ballinegarde Castle
  • Text within boundaries of image – <br>a

Image Details

Genre Landscape
Technique Pen and ink drawings
Subject(s) Antiquities and archaeological sites, Forts and fortifications
Geographical Location
  • Ballynagarde Castle – Castle
  • Ballyneety – Townland
  • Limerick – County
  • Munster – Province
Keyword(s) Archaeological sites, Birds, Buildings, Castles, Towers, Trees
Colour Monochrome
Dimensions 8 cm x 6.2 cm
Published / created 1681

Bibliographical Details

Travel Account Observations in a Voyage through the Kingdom of Ireland
Contributor(s)
Print or manuscript Manuscript
Location of image in copy p. 207
Source copy National Library of Ireland MS 392
Permalink https://ttce.universityofgalway.ie/irelandillustrated/view/image/ii_image_1375095703
Rights Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

Related text from travel account

BALLINEGARDE <br>Remarkeable here is that one M<sup>rs</sup> Bourke to be contracted to a person for whom she had no fancy the night before the intended solemnity she leap’d out of the window of this castle marked <em>a</em> of about 16 yards high without hurt & ran away. And afterwards marryed to the same man she so avoyded and lived happily with him <br>[p. 207] [image: Ballinegarde Castle] <br>Ballinegarde Castle is 4 miles distant from the City of Limerick in the hands of John Croker Esq<sup>r</sup> one of his Ma<sup>ties</sup> Justices of the Peace for the county of Limerick, & one of the greatest Corne merchants in the sayd County. <br>This Castle and Estate is the jointure of the widdow to Col<sup>l</sup> Randolph Clayton. <br>A mile and half from hence are seen the Ruines of Schuille Castle sd to be built by King John, the lands whereof belong to S<sup>r</sup> George Ingoldsby. herein lived in the yeer 1673, or near it, [p. 208] in a certein Cabbin, being serjeant viz a bayliffe to the sayd M<sup>r</sup> Croker one David Brown who voyded a flattish Worm of above twenty and four foot long. <br>Six miles from Limerick and seven miles from Ballinegard is the Town of <br>ADARE […] [pp. 206-208]
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