Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Neigham, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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 LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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
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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.