Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Coolcashin, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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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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 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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.