Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fortification
Dukesmeadows (shillelogher By., St. Patrick'S Par.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dukesmeadows (shillelogher By., St. Patrick'S Par.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.64986, -7.24809
- SMR number
- KK019-026220-
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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
Outside the original main gatehouse of Kilkenny Castle (KK019-026078-), a possible 17th-century fortification was identified in a 2010 geophysical survey of the parkland to E of the castle (Gimson 2010, unpublished; Ó Drisceoil 2020, unpublished). The 1654-6 Civil Survey records a masonry-built 'Mount' outside the main castle gatehouse, 'Wth out ye gate a Mount all built wth stone (32 feet [c. 10m] x 30 feet [c. 9m])' (Simington 1934, vol. 6, 534-5). This may have been some form of Confederate-era bastion that defended the E approach to the castle. A rubble spread and possible structural remains identified in the geophysical survey 45m outside, E of, the castle gatehouse may represent its sub-surface remains (Gimson 2010, unpublished; Ó Drisceoil 2020, unpublished).
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 11 November 2020
References
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2020 Archaeological assessment: proposed landscaping works and accessibility ramp, The Castle Yard, Kilkenny Castle (RMP KK019-026078-), Kilkenny City. Unpublished report. Kilkenny Archaeology.
Gimson, H. 2010 Archaeological geophysics at Kilkenny Castle 10R58. Unpublished report for the Heritage Council and Kilkenny Archaeology.
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1942 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol VI: county of Waterford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
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- Bowling greenunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - summer houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.