Castle - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

The OS Letters (1839) note that, ‘In the Townland of Castlekelly in this Parish is pointed out the site of a castle called Caisleán Uí Cheallaigh, from which the Townland took its name’ (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 19 (7)). The castle is not indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Gowran or on the parish map of Upper Grange (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map the ‘Site of Castle’ is indicated as being within a rectangular area (c. 38m NW-SE; c. 17m NE-SW), located c. 40m NE of an enclosure (KK021-018----). An aerial photograph (CUCAP ASW033, 17 July 1967) shows a cropmark of two parallel fosses, possibly a roadway (KK021-019002-), running roughly NW-SW for c. 50m S of the castle, and these may be associated with the castle or with the adjacent enclosure.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 20 April 2021

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kilkenny collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.