Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Drumerhin, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumerhin
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK014-080----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Fassadining and on the parish map where it is also annotated as, ‘an old stump’. The proprietor in 1640 is given as ‘Phill Purcell Ir[ish] pap[ist]’. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 464), the castle, 'stood to the west of the road from Ballyfoyle to Muckalee, in a field called the "Old Meadow." It has been uprooted, but the site may be distinguished without difficulty, being marked by little mounds and traces of foundations'. The location of the castle within the townland is unknown.
See attached:
KK014-080----_01 Extract from Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Kilmodum
KK014-080----_02 Extract from Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Fassadining
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 15 June 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.