Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Kellymount, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kellymount
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kellymount House
- Coordinates
- 52.68545, -7.05138
- SMR number
- KK016-009002-
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
The Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Shankill depicts a substantial house in the townland of 'Balleemcloughlin' which equates well with the modern townland of Kellymount (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). The house has been located to Kellymount House which is now a roofless ruin. According to Prendergast (1962 OPW Topographical files), the 'present [ruinous] house is adapted from a former larger residence, traces of which may be seen in blocked-up archways, doorways and windows in walls still standing adjoining the house. In the history of Kellymount House it seems that here was the home of a descendant of Maurice O'Kelly of Offaly who settled in Gowran in the time of Queen Elizabeth'. The house was destroyed by fire in 1750 but subsequently rebuilt (ibid.). In 1961 a tunnel (KK016-009001-) was uncovered under the front lawn immediately SE of the house.
KK016-009002-_01 Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Shankill (Hib. Reg., courtesy of Trinity College Dublin).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 30 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Tunnelunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.