Ireland · Restored
Ormonde Castle
Caisleán Urmhumhan
Ormond Castle stands on the east bank of the River Suir at Carrick-on-Suir in County Tipperary. The site combines a mid-15th-century walled bawn with a later Tudor manor house added in the late 16th century; the complex was restored in the 20th century and is visitable today.
Its prime
1600
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1600
What Ormonde Castle looked like in its prime.
A grey limestone fortified bawn with straight curtain walls flanked by square corner towers to the northeast and northwest, abutting a U-shaped two-storey Tudor manor with a gabled attic and chimneys. The manor facade shows paired mullioned windows on both floors and a projecting oriel over the central porch; a long first-floor gallery runs along the front. Ground level includes arched recesses and a small courtyard enclosed by the bawn and manor buildings, all finished in pale, weathered stone.
Its story
The story of Ormonde Castle.
The original castle at Carrick-on-Suir, built before 1315, was acquired that year by the Butler family after being taken from the Wall family; James Butler would eventually be granted the title of 1st Earl of Ormond. The oldest part of the existing castle is a mid-15th-century walled bawn, cornered on the northeast and northwest by towers.
Sometime after 1565 Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormonde, cousin of Queen Elizabeth I through Anne Boleyn, added the Tudor manor house. In September 1583 Archbishop Dermot O'Hurley, later among the formally recognised Irish Catholic Martyrs, was a guest here when Baron Slane persuaded him to surrender at Dublin Castle; despite his own militant Protestantism, the Earl was greatly offended and distressed at the trickery used against a guest in his house.
In the 17th century the house was a favourite residence of James Butler, the 'Great Duke of Ormonde', but the Butlers abandoned it after his death in 1688. It remained a Butler possession until the mid-20th century; the complex was restored in the 20th century and is visitable today.
Step inside
9 places to explore in 1600.
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Clans who held Ormonde Castle.
The families that held Ormonde Castle for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
Held by the Butlers, Earls and Dukes of Ormond, from 1315 until the mid-20th century.
