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Dovecote

Pigeonpark, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Dovecote, Pigeonpark, 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
Pigeonpark
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Pigeon Ho.
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.58351, -7.23704
SMR number
KK023-059----

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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)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located immediately NE of a large enclosure (KK023-058001-) and 25m SW of another enclosure (KK023-057----). Orpen (1909, 320-21) provides an extent of lands, ‘of Joan, Countess of Gloucester and Hertford, taken in 1307, the jurors say that there are within the manor of Dunfert “Within the enclosure one hall, one chamber, one dairy, one grange, one bretage beyond the gate, and other wooden houses”. They also mention “a dovecote,” perhaps at the same spot’.
A circular dovecote (diam. c. 7m), only the N section of walling survives (H 5.5m) and this is corbelled towards the top. There are remnants of pigeon holes internally, starting c. 0.6m above ground level and running in vertical lines c. 0.3m apart. They have narrow entrances but are wider inside and they are divided from each other by thin stone flags which act as lintels. The exterior was harled. Two bricks were noted in the fabric, possibly indicating a date around the 16th/17th century for the structure.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 18 August 2021

References

Orpen, G.H. 1909 Motes and Norman castles in Ossory. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 39, 313-42.

Nearby in the register

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

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