Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Killamery, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killamery
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.47624, -7.44489
- SMR number
- KK030-008001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the eastern end of the modern village of Killamery and c. 100m NNE of the medieval church (KK030-008001-) and graveyard (KK030-008010-). The ground dips at the base of the motte from S-SE before rising gradually to the S. There are good views to the N and W, the land rises to the E and S. Empey (1990, 85) lists Killamery as a town in his map of the medieval county of Kilkenny. The presence of a motte suggests that at the very least it was a manorial centre (KK030-008----). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 317), ‘the townland of Killamery having been acquired by the Earls Marshall, about the beginning of the 13th century, was granted by them, as a feudal tenancy, to the Tobins, or De St. Albin’s, Lords of Kaemshinagh. This roughly circular earthen motte (basal diam. c. 29m N-S; c. 28m E-W; top diam. c. 18.5m; H 4.5m at SE) is heavily overgrown with trees and scrub. There are some large stones protruding from the mound in the SE quadrant.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 July 2017
References
Empey, C.A. 1990 County Kilkenny in the Anglo-Norman period. In Nolan, W. and Whelan, K. (eds), Kilkenny: History and Society, 74-95. Dublin. Geography Publications.
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
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.