Cullahill Castle (TN034-025----)

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Cullahill Castle in the townland of Cullahill (An Chúlchoill/ the rear wood), barony of Kilnamanagh Upper, Parish of Glenkeen, Co. Tipperary. Situated on high ground with panoramic views of the surrounding countryside, on rock outcrop. Locally believed to be an O’Dwyer Castle which later came into the hands of the Bourke family. Remains of an L-plan 17th-century house & bawn. A two-storey high house with attic & a projecting angle tower at the W angle which is contemporaenous with the house as the walls are bonded into each other. The ground floor had a central fireplace in the SW gable with a wall-oven off the S splay of the fireplace. A tall rectangular chimney stack projects from the external face. There is an irregular-shaped bawn (TN034-025002) enclosed by an earth & stone bank with a possible entrance gap at SE. Described in the 1654-56 Civil Survey of Tipperary as a ‘castle and the walls of a stone house and some thatcht cabbins’. Richard Bourke is listed as proprietor of Cullahill in 1640.