Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Connahy, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Connahy
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.76866, -7.30974
- SMR number
- KK010-092001-
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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
At the foot of slopes rising up to the E hills of the Nore river valley, well above the flood plain, in tillage. Adjacent to much quarried rock outcrop. There are good views N-S along, and W across, the valley. On the Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Conohy, ‘a Castle in repayre’ is depicted in Connahy townland. The terrier accompanying this map records, ‘a Castle in repaire and some Cabbins [KK010-092992-] at Conohye’. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 194), 'The castle in Conahy Rocks, though "in repayre" at the time of the Down Survey, has now all but entirely disappeared. It belonged to the Ormonde family till about 1700. During the latter part of the 17th century and most of the 18th, it was occupied by a very respectable branch of the Purcell family'. The castle, though no longer visible at ground level, was located at the W end of a farmyard. The area of the castle was redeveloped in the 1950s.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 9 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.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.