Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Monabrika, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monabrika
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- KK013-091----
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The National Monuments Service's description
House depicted on Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Freshford (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin), N of Freshford and N of the Nuenna River in Monabrika townland. The precise location of this house is unknown, though earthworks in the field immediately N of the river and E of the Ballyragget road, including a disused trackway and two concentric curving fosses, c. 25m apart and c. 20m N of the river (visible on Digitalglobe, viewed 31 March 2020), may relate to this 17th-century house.
See attached images:
Extract from Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Freshford (Hib. Reg., courtesy of Trinity College Dublin).
Digitalglobe image, viewed 31 March 2020.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 31 March 2020
References
Hibernia Regnum: A set of 214 barony maps of Ireland dating to the period AD 1655-59. The original parish maps have been lost but the Hibernia Regnum maps are preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Goblet 1932, v-x). Photographic facsimiles of these maps were published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton in 1908.