Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Threecastles, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Threecastles
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.71286, -7.32425
- SMR number
- KK014-025002-
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
On a prominent E-W ridge running along the S bank of the River Nore. The slight elevation gives a commanding view across the Nore valley in all directions and over a crossing point of the river.
Carrigan (ibid. 268) refers to a castle which, 'stood 30 or 40 yards to the north [of the medieval church KK014-025003-], till it was thrown down 90 or 100 years ago [c. 1800], and the present Rectory house erected on the site. According to Gibb (1948, 26), the lower storey of the castle forms the cellars of the Rectory.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 20 May 2020
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Gibb, J. S. 1948 A tour of the Upper Nore. Old Kilkenny Review 1, 25-30.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.