Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Sheastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheastown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.61762, -7.19332
- SMR number
- KK024-125----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Manning (2012, 144) the ‘castle at Sheastown was in good repair in the mid-1650s, as recorded in the Civil Survey . . ., though no trace of it survives today apart from a Shee armorial plaque dated 1582 in the wall of the stables of Sheastown Lodge [KK024-124----]. The inscription on the plaque reads: 'Insignia Richardi Shee Kilkeniens armigeri 1582' ('The arms of Richard Shee of Kilkenny, Esquire, 1582'). The castle may have been on the site of or close to the old Sheastown House (Robertson 1851, unnumbered plate), which was demolished in the late nineteenth century. It stood above the river at a right-angled bend in the north avenue to Sheastown Lodge.’ As the precise location of the castle is unknown, it has located to the site of the old Sheastown House (KK024-118----).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of revised upload: 20 October 2021
References
Manning, C. 2012 Kilferagh, Co. Kilkenny: a medieval parish and its church. Journal of Irish Archaeology 21, 139-56.
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Memorial stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.