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Castle - unclassified

Tinnaslatty (galmoy By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

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Townland
Tinnaslatty (galmoy By.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.80201, -7.42472
SMR number
KK004-031----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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On a slight flat-topped bluff on the lower SW slopes of small stream valley, in rolling grasslands. Good views along and across the valley. Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 321) refers to, 'a castle in the "Castle field" of Duncuff, but only small pieces of its walls remained in or about the year 1830, when the last traces of the building were removed. As the townland of Tinnislatty belonged to the Viscounts Mountgarret, the castle of Duncuff must have belonged to them likewise'. vestiges of a castle remaining until the 1830's. Field here known as 'Castle Field'. No visible surface indication. During fieldwork in 1987 a field in this townland, immediately S of the county boundary with Co. Laois, was identified as the castle field. The castle is not visible at ground level and its precise location within the field is unknown.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 16 February 2016

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

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