Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Clashacrow, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clashacrow
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- KK013-093002-
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The National Monuments Service's description
The Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Clashacrow depicts a house (KK013-093001-) with a cluster of three other houses on the W side of the Arigna River, almost opposite the medieval church of Clashacrow (KK013-051001-). The proprietor in 1640 is listed as Robert Shee Irish Papist. The precise location of these houses within Clashacrow townland is unknown.
See attached extract from Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Clashacrow (Hib. Reg., courtesy of Trinity College Dublin).
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.