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Castle - unclassified

Carrigeen (Gowran By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Carrigeen, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrigeen (Gowran By.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Site of Brittas Castle
Latest-edition OS map
Brittas Castle (Site of)
Coordinates
52.50567, -7.05414
SMR number
KK029-028----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

The Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of 'Inishteage' in the barony of Gowran, is accompanied by a terrier (NLI MS720). This terrier mentions that, 'There is in Cappagh a Stone House Ruined' and lists Henry Archer as the proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). It is possible that the building called, 'Brittas Castle' on the 6-inch OS maps, may be the house mentioned in the Down Survey.
Described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 116), as, ‘In Brittawce, a subdivision of Kilkieran was another castle now also destroyed. Its site is still pointed out in the “castle field” of Brittawce, to the south-west of Kilkieran churchyard. Both these castles belonged to the Dobbins till the Cromwellian confiscations in 1653’.
The location of the castle is visible as a roughly square platform (max. dims. 28m square, H 0.5m) with low-lying wet ground to N, E and W. There are traces of an infilled fosse (Wth 3m) on the N, E and W sides. A modern road immediately to the S may truncate it.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 9 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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