Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Stroan, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stroan
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (In Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.56093, -7.12304
- SMR number
- KK028-012----
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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
On the lower reaches of an E-facing slope with good views to the NE-E-S. A stream runs c. 125m to the SE. A castle is indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Gowran, County Kilkenny, shown in ‘Stragham’ within ‘Kileane Parish’ (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). A more elaborate castle is indicated in ‘Strahan’ on the Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of ‘Killfane’ (National Library of Ireland MS720) and the accompanying terrier describes, ‘upon Straham a good Castle in repaire’ with John Cantwell listed as the proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). The castle is shown on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and 1948-9 revision and annotated, ‘Castle (in ruins)’. O’Kelly (1969, 84) describes, ‘A castle and mock tower both in ruins are beside the fountain’. The fountain is indicated on the 1948-9 revision c. 35m NNE of the castle. When visited in 1994 there was no upstanding masonry visible, only a low, irregular and hummocky platform which may indicate where the castle stood. A roughly square bawn (KK028-012001-) is visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 27 March 2022).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.