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Bawn

Neigham, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Neigham, 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
Neigham
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.60639, -7.05450
SMR number
KK025-001002-

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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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Neigham Castle (KK025-001001-) is located within the NE quadrant of this bawn. According to Lanigan (1981, 250), ‘the castle was built by Sir James Butler father to the 8th Earl of Ormonde not too long before his death in 1487’. The castle is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Dungarvan, in the barony of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). It is described in the terrier for Dungarvan Parish as, ‘on Neigham a castle in good repaire’ and Sir Edward Butler is listed as the proprietor in 1640 (NMI MS720).
A roughly square enclosure (dims. c. 50m N-S and E-W), though the N portion is not clearly visible, defined by a water-filled moat. The S and W sides are best preserved and much of the E side is also visible, particularly the S portion.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 23 February 2022

References

Lanigan, K. M. 1981 Neigham Castle. Old Kilkenny Review 2, no. 3, 250-51.

Nearby in the register

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

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