Ballinaclough House, Nenagh, Co Tipperary 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

p. 16. “(Bayley/IFR) A two storey gable ended house with irregular fenestration; round-headed windows, with simple fanlights in all of them; fanlighted entrance doorway, which is not central to the front. Ogee headed windows in gable end.” 

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Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with extension to north. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Trefoil-headed window openings to gables and round-headed elsewhere, some paired, all with replacement windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber glazed door. Remains of a seventeenth-century house and ruins of thirteenth-century hall and towerhouse to north of site. Four-bay two-storey outbuilding to north of house with rubble limestone walls, pitched slate roof, square-headed openings to first floor, segmental to ground. Adjoining two-storey building to north is possible bastle house, with rendered stone walls, projecting chimneystack and flight of steps to first floor doorway. Cobbled courtyard. 

Set in mature gardens, this house has retained much of its original form and structure, despite additions and alterations. The house retains its round-headed and unusual trefoil-pointed window openings which enliven the façade. Also to the site are the remains of thirteenth-, fifteenth- and seventeenth-century dwellings which add archaeological interest to the site. 

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Ballinaclough Castle 

Map Reference: R983406 (1983, 1406)  

 
This round castle is intact to second floor level. About half the original doorway remains and it is protected by a murder-hole. There is a large rectangular room at each level and a mural stairway rises to the upper levels. No smaller chambers were noted. There are fireplaces at the first and second floors and the first floor is lit by two windows, the smaller one having an ogee head. At the roadside nearby is a boulder with a possible bullaun.