County: Tipperary Site name: Anner Castle, Ballinamore
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS077-089 Licence number: 15E0123
Author: Órla Scully
Site type: Post-medieval castle
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 625646m, N 625945m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.384450, -7.623273
Anner castle is a 19th-century Neo-Gothic construction, with evidence for an earlier building. This earlier structure was not in existence at the time of the civil survey of 1654-56. It is however visible in its earlier T-shape form (Ballina House) on the first edition O.S. map. The land had been in the ownership of the Mandeville family for 330 years having been acquired by Ambrose Mandeville in 1683 (whose ancestors resided in the nearby Ballydine Castle of the same parish since 1325). It was bought from the Mandeville family by the present owner in 2013.
Testing has confirmed that the castle was built on the remains of Ballina House which was most likely built in the early 1700’s. A section of cobbled floor and a rectangular stone-lined pit belonging to the earlier phase of building were uncovered. No remains earlier than this phase were found. The finds throughout the project were contemporary with the final use of the house, at the time of the fire in 1926.
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