2012:565 - NENAGH: Nenagh Castle, Tipperary
County: Tipperary
Site name: NENAGH: Nenagh Castle
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TN020-037001
Licence number: E4416
Author: Dave Pollock
Site type: Castle - Anglo Norman masonry castle
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 586655m, N 679360m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.864981, -8.198190
Initial monitoring inside the circular keep at Nenagh Castle in 2009 found considerable truncation below the medieval floor level, but possible survival of earlier levels below remains of an artificial mound or bank.
Investigations in the keep in 2012, in association with the installation of ducting, found a pit and a large central foundation, cut and laid at the start of castle construction, before work was underway on the masonry tower.
