Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Round tower
Kellistown East, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kellistown East
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.79217, -6.83235
- SMR number
- CW008-038002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The Anthologia Hibernica (Vol. IV., p. 105 July - December 1794) contains a sketch of a Round Tower in ruins at Kellistown (JKAS 1933, 271-7). A drawing by J. Saunders TCD, believed to date to c. 1797 also depicts the round tower in ruins. The OS Letters (O' Flanagan 1934, 44) note that the Belfry of the chuch (CW008-038001-) was built where the round tower stood.
Reference:
O' Flanagan, E. (typescript) 1934 Letters containing information relative to the Antiquities of the County of Carlow collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 19 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.