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Settlement deserted - medieval

Coolcashin, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Settlement deserted - medieval, Coolcashin, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Coolcashin
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.77192, -7.46523
SMR number
KK009-019004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a gentle E-facing slope, just below the crest of a hill, in rolling grassland, with a stream running along the SW edge of the settlement, flowing into a river c. 200m to the E. In the field, immediately N, E and W of the medieval church (KK009-019001-) and graveyard (KK009-019002-) there are earthworks consisiting of trackways, enclosures and platforms which are indicative of a medieval settlement (KK009-019004-). The Down Survey parish map (1655-6) of Coolcashin shows 'a stump of a castle' (KK009-019005-) roughly at this location. There is a holy well (KK009-019007-) 18m W of the NW angle of graveyard.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 30 January 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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