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Castle - unclassified

Pottlerath, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Pottlerath, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Pottlerath
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Castle (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Castle (Site of)
Coordinates
52.61603, -7.44055
SMR number
KK022-003----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On relatively level ground with a stream running NW-SE c. 30m to the W. In 1453, Edmund Mac Richard Butler had a transcript of the Psalter of Cashel made at the castle of Pottlerath (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 433). Carrigan (ibid.) attributes the building of the nearby church (KK022-003----), c. 90m to the N, in the mid-15th-century to Edmund Mac Richard Butler. He states that the castle ‘was levelled with the earth about the year 1800. It stood about 50 or 60 yards in front of Pottlerath Ho.' (ibid. 434). The OS Letters (1839) record that 'no vestige of it [the castle] remains now' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 245 (82). The location of the castle is indicated on the on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and 1899-1900 revision as being in the SW angle of the farm/stable yard associated with Pottlerath House. It is not visible above ground level.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 17 May 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.

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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