Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Esker, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Esker
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK010-117----
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the Down Survey (1655-6) Parish map of Mothill, there is a house drawn in the S portion of the townland, immediately W of a castle (KK010-118001-), N of the Dinin River. The terrier accompanying the map records, ‘There is at Esker an old Stump of a Castle with a House and Cabbins [KK010-118002-]’, with the proprietor listed as ‘Edm[on]d Purcell Ir[ish] Pa[pis]t’. The precise location of this house within the townland is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 15 January 2019
Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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