Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Glenmagoo Or Firoda Lower, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenmagoo Or Firoda Lower
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK005-051----
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 161), ‘Another castle stood at James Coogan’s, in this townland [Firoda Lower, otherwise Glenmagoo]. Its ruins were uprooted in 1860. It was known as “Grace’s old castle” from its last occupant, one Ellenor Grace, who cannot have lived much later than the year 1700. Near this is a deep gripe called Lhockeearrig or the Red Flags, and a well called Tubbernahock or Well of the Flags’. The precise location of the castle within the townland is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 17 May 2017
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.