Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Sandfordscourt, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sandfordscourt
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.68321, -7.19250
- SMR number
- KK015-021003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
In rolling grassland, now mainly reclaimed. Good views in all directions except to the S where the vista is blocked by the small hill. The tower house (KK015-021001-), known as Cantwell’s Castle, is situated at the SW end of a low mound (dims. 48m N-S; 41m E-W; H c. 1m) and at the W angle of a bawn (KK015-021002-). Settlement earthworks extend NE and eastward (L c. 250m) from the castle mound. This consists of a complex of field boundaries and enclosures as well as drainage channels. There are semi-circular and rectangular enclosures in the field S of Sandfords Court castle (KK015-020001-). The W part of Cantwell's Castle field is absolutely flat and no earthworks are visible at ground level. The E part is under tillage but is very irregular and there are clearly remains of earthworks which have been obscured by ploughing.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 1 March 2016
Nearby in the register
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.