TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Castle - unclassified

Sheastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Sheastown, 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
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----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

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

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Castle - unclassified in Kilkenny All County Kilkenny records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map