Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Graiguenamanagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graiguenamanagh
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK029-018011-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Graige, in the barony of Gowran, as a building with two angle towers, in the area N of the River Barrow and E of the Douske River (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). The terrier accompanying the parish map states, 'There is on Graige a Castle [KK029-018010-] an abby [KK029-018001-] and a Mill [KK029-018009-]' and lists the proprietor in 1640 as Sir Edward Butler (ibid.). The only substantial building at this location is the Cistercian abbey which was dissolved in 1540 and it is possible that the 17th-century cartographers were depicting a portion of the abbey which may have been converted into a residence. However, there is no surviving evidence to substantial this, so the building depicted is currently unlocated.
See attached:
KK029-018011-_01 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Graige (Hib. Reg., courtesy of Trinity College Dublin)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 16 March 2022