Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Bishopslough South, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bishopslough South
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK024-098----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A castle is indicated in the S portion of Bishopslough townland on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of ‘Gowran’ and on the parish map of Tullohedin (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). This S portion of the 17th-century townland subsequently became a separate townland called Bishopslough South. The precise location of this castle within the townland is unknown.
See attached:
KK024-098----_01 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of ‘Gowran’ (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin)
KK024-098----_01 Extract from Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Tullohedin, in the barony of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 13 October 2021