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House - 17th century

Foulksrath (Fassadinin By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - 17th century, Foulksrath, 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
Foulksrath (Fassadinin By.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.75003, -7.31668
SMR number
KK010-056003-

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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 the Down Survey (1655-6) Parish map of Coolerahin, there is a house with a chimney drawn in ‘Foukrath’townland. The terrier accompanying the map records, ‘There is a Castle in Repaire in Fouksrath with some Cabbins’, with the proprietor listed as ‘Phillip Pursall Ir[ish] Pa[pist]’. The precise location of this house within the townland is unknown but it may be the house referred to by Wright (1885-6, 436) as the manor house. According to Wright (ibid.), 'There are also considerable remains of a large building, now forming part of the stable and garden walls, which a hundred years ago were much more perfect, and which my father used to say were then evidently the ruins of a large manor-house or court. On the side of the archway, which now leads to the stables out of the bawn, is a small disroofed chamber'. This appears to refer to a building N of the gateway in the N wall. The gateway itself appears to predate the present bawn (KK010-056007-) as it is closed from outside the bawn wall.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 14 May 2019

References

Wright, W.B. 1885-6 On Foulksrath Castle and Loughmoe: their founders and possessors. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 17, 432-9.

Nearby in the register

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

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