Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Radestown North, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Radestown North
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK014-089----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Castle indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of ‘The Liberties of the City of Kilkenny’ and on the parish map of ‘St Johns’ (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). On the parish map the castle is annotated, 'a Castle in repaire'. In the terrier accompanying the parish map, the proprietor of ‘Radistowne’ in 1640 are listed as ‘Michael Cowley Ir[ish] P[apist]’ and the properties in this townland are listed as, 'a Castle in repaire with several thatch houses' (ibid.). The precise location of the castle is unknown within the townland.
See attached:
KK014-089----_01 Extract from the the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of ‘The Liberties of the City of Kilkenny’
KK014-089----_02 Extract from Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of ‘St Johns‘
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 15 June 2020