Ballyquirk

Ballyquirk Castle ruins

Ballyquirk (Irish: Baile Uí Chuirc)[1] is a townland in the Barony of Ormond Lower, County Tipperary, Ireland. It is located in the civil parish of Lorrha, north of Carrigahorig.

Ballyquirk Castle, located in the townland, is a single storey over basement property with three bays and a rear tower. It is all that is left following alterations made in the nineteenth century to the original two storey over basement property which featured four towers. Ruins of an earlier castle stand nearby. The castle appears on North Tipperary County Council's Record of Protected Structures (ref S69)[2]

The woods at Ballyquirk form a part of Borrisokane Forest which consists of several widely dispersed small areas of woodland managed by Coillte, the state sponsored forestry company.[3]

  1. ^ "Baile Uí Chuirc / Ballyquirk". logainm.ie. Bunachar Logainmneacha na hÉireann - Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Tipperary North - County Development Plan - Appendix 3 - Record Of Protected Structures (By Townland)". Archived from the original on 2 October 2010.
  3. ^ "Coillte: Tipperary". Coillte.ie. Archived from the original on 13 January 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2013.