Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Clone (galmoy By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clone (galmoy By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Clone Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Clone Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.75635, -7.37965
- SMR number
- KK009-045----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In flat parkland of Clone House, on slightly rising land on the W side of the Nore river valley. When described in the OS Letters (1839) all that survived upstanding was, 'One strongly groined vault of the old Castle of Cloone' (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 89 (30)). Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 326) notes that a, 'small fragment of Clone Castle, the seat of the Purcells, may still be seen at Clone House', however, on the 1900 revision of the 6-inch OS map the description has changed from 'in ruins' on the 1st (1839) ed. to 'site of'. The castle is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 6 February 2018
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kilkenny collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
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- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.