Westkopp — A}icient Castles of the County of Limerick, 239 



from Clogli Gleanna^ C. (A.F.IT. ; 0' Sullivan Eeare renders the name 

 Vallirupa). 1573 The Earl of Desmond put his man, Jas. Dore, at 

 the head of all the carpenters and masons of the country to raze 

 the Glan (C.S.P.I.). 1578 Granted to Sir W. Drury, President of 

 Mounster, of the C. or manor of Glan, with mill, cottages, and fourteen 

 carrowes, or quarters, each of 12 acres; also Castletown (Kenry) and 

 Keppaugh, late possessions of Tho. f. Gerald, Knight of the Glan 

 (Fi. 3277). 1583 Glan Corhry, in Killfaryse, with the C. of 

 Cloghglan, called ffarrenyer-Euddery (Peyton, 227). Restored to 

 Edm. f. T., grandson of its former owner, T. f. T. (see 1567), who 

 had heen executed in Limerick. The C. of Glencorbry waste (Des. 

 R., 74b, 75). 1600 The Knight of Glin played a waiting game, and 

 the C. was in the hands of the Sugan Earl's adherents. The English, 

 under the President, hesieged the C., entrenching themselves hetween 

 it and the river. Captain Flower then took the great hall and turret- 

 stair, hurnedthe door, stormed tlie keep, and took the roof, whence the 

 surviving Irish leaped ; eighty Irish and eleven English were slain 

 (Pac. Hih. i., p. 113). 1603 Edm., Knight of the Valley, got pardon 

 on condition of his resignation of the C. to Jas. I. The C. has 

 since been held by the Knights of Glin. In 1655 Lt.-Col. Widnham 

 rented it (Hartwell Acct.). It was called Ballygallyhannan, in 

 Kilfergus (Ballygillen adjoins it still), with manor. Courts Leet and 

 Baron, oldC, a ruined bawn, two mill seats, and a brook running by 

 the C. side (C.S., p. 100). 



Falric. — The tower is 21 feet 8 inches by 19 feet inside, and 

 40 feet high. Old people, in 1840, remembered it about 30 feet 

 higher. The walls are 8 feet thick ; there are four stories, two with 

 broken vaults. A plain structure of thin flags ; all features defaced 

 (O.S.L., 9, p. 149). The Hardiman View (No. 60, reproduced ante, 

 Plate xiii.), and that in " PacataHibemia," show it as in 1600, during 

 the siege. The bawn was 102 feet by 92 feet ; it had a main gate to 

 the north, a turret at each eastern angle, the great hall to the north- 

 west, and the keep to the south-west. All, save the stump of the 

 keep, is now levelled. 



375. CouET (17). Not marked. 1583 Meanes and Tannacourt, 

 Kilfergus (Peyton, p. 106). 1590 The Meanes," a castelhited 

 building, with a side wing (Jobsou's Map, Hardiman, No. 60). 1655 

 Courte and East Meanes, held by T. Fitzgerald, of Glin (C.S., p. 97). 



^ This usage of cloch " for a stone biiilding, whether residential or monastic, 

 is not infrequent in the county. 



