Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballymack (desart),ballymack (flood), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymack (desart),ballymack (flood)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK023-085----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A castle is indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Sheelogher, ‘Sheelelogher’ (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin), roughly in the location of Ballymack House in Ballymack (Desart) townland. Commins (1906, 266) mentions that the Comerford family owned castles and estates at a number of places, including Ballymack. The precise location of the castle is unknown within the townlands of Ballymack (Desart) and Ballymack (Flood).
See attached:
KK023-085----_01 Extract from Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Sheelogher/‘Sheelelogher’ (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 7 September 2021
References
Commins, J. 1906 Notes on the places of antiquarian interest visited by the society, May, 1906. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 36, 265-75.