Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Corbetstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corbetstown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.73872, -7.24154
- SMR number
- KK010-119001-
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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
On slight terrace on the SE slopes of the Dinin river valley. There are good views in all directions across and along valley. On the Down Survey (1655-6) Parish map of Mothill, there is a castle drawn in Corbetstown townland, annotated ‘a castle in repaire’. The terrier accompanying the map records, ‘In Corbetstowne a Castle and Cabbins [KK010-119002-]’, with the proprietor listed as ‘Walter Archer Fitz John Ir[ish] Pa[pis]t’. A circular three storey tower house located at the N end of an old farm house within a farmyard. It was demolished in July 1987.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 19 December 2016
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.