Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Kilkieran (gowran By., Famma Ed), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkieran (gowran By., Famma Ed)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Kilkieran Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilkieran Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.51540, -7.04424
- SMR number
- KK029-022----
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular building (dims. c. 15m N-S x c 7m E-W), though presumably only the footprints remains as it is annotated, 'Site of Kilkieran Castle'. A stream is indicated running NW-SE past the NE edge of the building. The castle is not indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Gowran or the parish map of 'Inisteage', however, the terrier accompanying the parish map states that there is, 'on Kilkeran the stump of an old castle' and the proprietor in 1640 is listed as Nicholas Dobbin (NLI MS 720).
According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 116), 'Its ruined walls were thrown down a few years ago, and only its foundations now remain beneath the surface of the wet, marshy field in which it stood'. A slight rise in undulating ground is the only indication of the castle at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 8 March 2022
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.