Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Carrigeen (gowran By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
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 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
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
- Stoup (present location)under 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.