Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Whiteswall, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whiteswall
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.81338, -7.58191
- SMR number
- KK003-032001-
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
On a flat-topped elevation in rollling grassland. Good views all round though the land rises towards the E. Known locally as the site of Whiteswall House. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 280), the 'ancient house or castle of Whiteswall stood opposite Mrs. Kavanagh's house in the field called "the Parks". The site is a gentle elevation, circular in shape, and was enclosed by a thick balla, or stone wall, the foundations of which remain under the surface. The old residence was thrown down about 1750 or earlier, and a new one erected a few perches to the east of it'. There is no visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 8 February 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 - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.