Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Woolengrange, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woolengrange
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK024-100----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A castle is indicated in ‘Wollensgrange’ townland on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of ‘Gowran’ (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin) and on the parish map of Killerney (NLI MS720). The terrier accompanying the parish map describes, ‘on Woolengrange a Castle out of repaire’, with the proprietor in 1640 listed as ‘The Earle of Ormond’. The castle is located on the E bank of the River Nore, roughly where the river bends westward. The precise location of the castle in this general area of the townland is unknown.
See attached:
KK024-100----_01 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of ‘Gowran’ (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin)
KK024-100----_01 Extract from Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Killerney, in the barony of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny (NLI MS720)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 18 October 2021