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Castle - unclassified

Kilmademoge, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Kilmademoge, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilmademoge
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.71351, -7.24713
SMR number
KK014-098----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Castle indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of ‘Killmidimog’ (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). In the terrier accompanying the map, the proprietor of ‘Killmodimoge’ in 1640 are listed as ‘Garrett Blanchvile I[rish] Pa[pist]’ and properties in the townland are listed as, ‘a little Round Castle with a Bawne and some Cabbins’ (ibid.). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 463), ‘Kilmodimogue Castle stood a few hundred yards south of the church [KK014-042001-], in the haggard of the now deserted farmstead of the Codys…Not a stone or a trace of it now remains’. The precise location of the castle in the vicinity of the farm S of the church is unknown, though it possibly occupied the slightly higher ground to the S of the farm.

See attached:
KK014-090----_01 Extract from Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of ‘Killmodimoge ‘

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 16 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.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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