Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Rathpatrick (galmoy By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathpatrick (galmoy By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78495, -7.63702
- SMR number
- KK007-001003-
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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 the edge of low-lying, boggy, rough pasture with rock outcrop. The bawn is associated with a fortified house (KK007-001001-) known as 'Castle Pierce'. The area has been planted with forestry with a roughly square buffer zone (dims. c. 65m²) around the castle. In the 17th century this townland was part of Bruckana (called Brickanagh) townland. The Down survey map of Eirke parish shows a castle annotated 'decayed' in Brickanagh with Peter Archdeacon (aka Pierce Cody), Irish papist, listed as the proprietor before the 1641 Rising. The accompanying terrier also mentions a bawn. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 284), 'Part of the courtyard wall remained down to 1855'. The bawn is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 11 March 2019
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
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.