Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Castle Eve, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castle Eve
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK027-056----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 330) refers to, 'High Rath, a sub-division of Castle Eve, is so called from an ancient fort long since levelled', he goes on to say, 'There is here a field named "the Old Street," full of mounds and traces of foundations, which, the people all say, formed the extreme western limit of the city of Kells in the time of its greatness. High Rath is 1½ or 2 Irish miles distant from the present village of Kells'. 'Highrath' is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map, the 1948 revision and on the 25-inch (1899) OS map as the name of a settlement cluster in the northern portion of Castle Eve townland. The precise location of earthworks described by Carrigan is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 5 April 2023
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.