Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Kilbrickan, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbrickan
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK026-026----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Shillelogher, Co. Kilkenny (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin) depicts a castle in the S portion of the 17th-century townland of 'Killbracan' which equates with the modern townland of Kilbrickan. Another large building, which appears to be a house (KK026-027----), is depicted S of it, on the N bank of the Kings River. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 335) refers to, 'a castle here, close to the King's River, in a field called Srawdh-a-tee-moozh [Stáid an tí mhóir], or Street of the Big House'. The precise location of the castle is unknown within the S portion of Kilbrickan townland.
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.