Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Byrnesgrove, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Byrnesgrove
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK005-065----
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 105), the Irish name for the townland of Byrnesgrove is pronounced Bollanagnawch, the present name dating from the early part of the 18th century. He goes on to write that, ‘Byrnesgrove castle stood to the left, beside the old road from Ballyragget to Castlecomer. Its walls were almost perfect till soon after the year 1820, when they were thrown down and the cellars uprooted. Only a very small fragment of the ancient masonry now remains, being incorporated with the gable of a cabin’. The precise location of the castle within the townland is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 22 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.