Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Castlemarket, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlemarket
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- (Site of) Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.85283, -7.32393
- SMR number
- KK001-006001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On the S bank of the Ouveg River. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 113), the 'castle stood beside a high moat in a field called "the Kruckawn" or "Old Castle," close to Castlemarket bridge. It formerly belonged to the Earls of Ormond. It was destroyed, together with the adjoining moat [KK001-006002-], about 1800'. The castle is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 April 2016
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.