Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Ballyragget,parksgrove, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyragget,parksgrove
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78701, -7.34074
- SMR number
- KK010-139001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
The name 'Ballyragget' translates in Irish as Béal Átha Ragad [https://www.logainm.ie/en/26513?s=Ballyragget]. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 90), the name means, 'Ragget's ford or ford-mouth' and 'as early as 1220, the Anglo-Norman, Richard le Ragged, held lands close to the church or chapel of Tulachbarri, and these lands may be quite safely identified with those on which the town of Ballyragget now stands'. It seems likely that the fording place over the River Nore was at the wide but shallower stretch of the river immediately W of the town, which was subsequent superseded by a bridge (KK010-139001-).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 23 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
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.