Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 16th/17th century
Goslingstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Goslingstown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle Bamford
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.62201, -7.27280
- SMR number
- KK019-039003-
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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) barony map of Sheelogher indicates a building, consisting of a tower (KK019-039001-) and a house, in the centre of ‘Goshinstowne’ townland (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). This equates well with the modern townland of Goslingstown and to the location of Castle Bamford in particular. Castle Bamford house is now ruinous. When inspected in 1993 it was found to be a multi-period building containing the fabric of a medieval castle (O’Dwyer, OPW unpublished report, 7 January 1993). O’Dwyer notes that,’in the 1600s Castle Bamford, formerly in the ownership of Thomas See, Irish Papist, was granted to the Duke of York, brother of the king and future King James II [see Calendar of State Paters 1666-69, printed in London in 1908, p. 525] and Books of Survey and Distribution for Co. Kilkenny. As far as I can establish the property was in the hands of the de Valles (or Walls) from Norman times and passed to the Comerfords by marriage c. 1560. I suspect it began as a tower enlarged as a house in the late 16th or early 17th centuries and Georganised c. 1750’ (ibid.). Castle Bamford survives as a roofless ruin.
See attached:
KK019-039003-_01 Extract from Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Sheelogher
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 6 October 2002
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.