Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Seskin North, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Seskin North
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Mountgarret Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mountgarret Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.80182, -7.38324
- SMR number
- KK004-019001-
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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
Just below the crest of the gently sloping W side of the Nore river valley, amongst rolling and mostly reclaimed grassland. There are good views to N and S along the valley, E across the valley and W into the neighbouring stream valley. The castle is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular building (dims. c. 14m NE-SW; c. 7-8m NW-SE). The OS Letters (1839) state that the locals, 'show the site of a Castle in Seskin Mountgarret Townland encompassed by a half closed up trench; the people here call it Castle Mountgarret' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 96). According to O'Kelly (1985, 54), the castle is associated with the Butler Mountgarret family. The castle is not visible at ground level. It may have occupied a regular platform (max. dims. 50m E-W, 42m N-S) with slight embankment at N and S sides. It has a steep embankment at W and terraced scarp at E. There are earthworks (KK004-019002-) within this field to the N, E, S and W which may be associated with the castle.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 10 February 2016
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kilkenny collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.
O'Kelly, O. 1969 (Reissue 1985) The place-names of County Kilkenny. Kilkenny.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.