Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Clintstown (fassadinin By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
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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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 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.