Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Finnan, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Finnan
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- KK010-088----
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The National Monuments Service's description
This is a duplicate record. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 101), ‘The site of Finnan Castle is pointed out in “the Curragh,” on the bounds of Garranagully. A massive iron gate, believed to have belonged to the castle, was dug up here about 1820’. A castle (KK005-064001-) and houses (KK005-064002-) are also marked in this general location on the Down Survey (1655-6) maps. As the precise location of the castle within the townland is unknown a record was created for its possible location on OS 6-inch sheet 10, onto which a small southern portion of the townland extends.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 8 January 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.