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House - 16th/17th century

Sandfordscourt, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - 16th/17th century, Sandfordscourt, 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
Sandfordscourt
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Sandfords Court
Latest-edition OS map
Sandfords Court (in ruins)
Coordinates
52.68715, -7.19148
SMR number
KK015-020002-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Set amid reclaimed rolling grassland. Fair views in all directions. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 274), describes the house as, 'The old building, properly called Sandford’s Court, stands in ruins some distance to the north of the castle [KK015-020001-]. It is built in the shape of an F, and was of considerable extent. The materials used in its erection were those of a demolished castle that stood immediately beside it, and that must have been of some pretensions, if one may judge from the many pieces of cut-stone, such as quoins, window and door casings, &c., taken therefrom and used as ordinary building stones, in the more modern edifice’. There is no visible trace of the house at ground level, however, it is likely that some remains, as well as architectural fragments from both the castle and house, are incorporated in the later buildings now occupying the location.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 29 February 2016

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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