Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 16th/17th century
Deansground, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Deansground
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Deansby Cottage
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.64491, -7.24804
- SMR number
- KK019-101----
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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
In Kilkenny City, in the grounds of the former St Joseph's Industrial School between Waterford Road and Nuncio Road c. 500m S of the medieval city walls. Walsh (1955, 14) mentions that, 'In an inquisition held in the new Tholsel in April, 1628, a certain Jac Martin was in possession of a plot of land near the cemetery of St. Patrick's which he held from the Dean of St. Canice's, then residing at 'his manor of Donoghmore, then known as the Castle of Donoghmore. His residence is described in documents of the 17th century as the Dean's Castle of Donoghmore. The area was also known as Dean's ground and Deansby. The castle stood within the grounds of St. Joseph's'. The precise location of this house/castle is unknown but it is likely to have been on or in the vicinity of the house named, 'Deansby Cottage' on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 19 October 2020
References
Walsh, P. 1955 Upper Patrick Street: some notes of a tour conducted by Patrick Walsh. Old Kilkenny Review 8, 11-15.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.