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Castle - unclassified

Clintstown (Fassadinin By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Clintstown, 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
Clintstown (Fassadinin By.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.73675, -7.33835
SMR number
KK010-109----

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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

In a fairly level cultivated grass field on a gentle W-facing slope towards a channel of the River Nore. On the Down Survey (1655-6) Parish map of Coolerahin, there is a castle drawn in the W portion of the townland, E of the River Nore. The terrier accompanying the map of records, ‘a little Castle and House in Repaire at Clintstowne with some Cabbins’, with the proprietor listed as ‘Lord MountGarrett Ir[ish] Pa[pist]’. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 199), in the '"castle-field" there was a castle, the ruins of which were removed about 1860; it belonged, as did the whole townland, to the Mountgarrets'.
The field is known locally as 'Castle Field' and cannon balls, now missing, were uncovered here in the 1950s. Though not indicated as a castle, a rectangular ruined building (dims. c. 16m x c. 5m), orientated NNW-SSE, is depicted on the 1st (1839) edition OS 6-inch map in this field. It is not depicted on the revised 1947 edition. The castle is not visible at ground level.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 14 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

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

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