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Castle - unclassified

Tullowglass, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Tullowglass, 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
Tullowglass
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.73701, -7.30026
SMR number
KK010-115----

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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

At the S end of a small N-S ridge on the floor of the Nore river valley, in rolling grassland. There are good views in all directions, though partly blocked to the E by a higher ridge. The castle is indicated on the Down Survey 'Parrish map of Mayne' (1655-6) in the northern portion of the townland and described in the accompanying terrier as, 'a little Castle in repaire at Tulleglasse', with the proprietor listed as 'Peter Shee Ir[ish] pap[ist]'.
The remains consist of an oval mound (max. dims. L 23m N-S; W 17m E-W at NW end, W 5m at SE end) which was largely demolished in the mid-1980s. The surviving mound, much overgrown, is entirely covered by loose stones. Two short sections of low roughly coursed wall of undressed stone remain, one in the NW (L c. 1.5m running N-S) and one in the NE (L 2m running E-W).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 14 January 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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