Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Ballydowel Big, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydowel Big
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- KK013-097001-
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The National Monuments Service's description
The Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Crannagh (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin), depicts a large house in 'Ballidowell' townland, W of the Arigna River. Three other houses (KK013-097002-) are indicated along the E side of the river. The proprietor in 1640 is noted as, 'Countess of Ormond P[ro]testant'. The precise location of this house is unknown within Ballydowel Big townland.
See attached extract from Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Crannagh (Hib. Reg., courtesy of Trinity College Dublin).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 1 April 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.