Ballinard (Irish: Baile an Aird, meaning 'the high town')[1 1] is a civil parish and townland located in the eastern part of County Limerick, Ireland.

Geologically, the parish rests on a substratum of limestone, except in some few places where the basalt rises.

According to Lewis' Topography of Ireland (1837), the parish contained 867 inhabitants and comprised 1366 statute acres.

The tithes of the parish amounted to £148, 18 shillings, of which two-thirds were payable to the impropriator[2][3] and the remainder to the vicar.

This castle was the main seat of a branch of the FitzGerald dynasty that was built in the fifteenth century.