Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Gaulstown Lower, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gaulstown Lower
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Gaulstown Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gaulstown Castle
- Coordinates
- 52.68077, -7.39248
- SMR number
- KK013-082----
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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 slightly undulating reclaimed grass field, on plateau between valleys with good views in all directions. According to the Ordnance Survey letters (1839), 'There is a piece of the south wall of a castle in Gaulstown Townland; the walls three and a half feet [c. 1m] thick. They say it belonged originally to the Grace family' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 208). The castle appears to be depicted on the 1st (1839) and subsequent 1900 revision of the 6-inch OS maps as a roofed square building (dims. c. 8m square). The castle is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 21 December 2016
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kilkenny collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.