Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - early medieval
Castletown (iverk By), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (iverk By)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- KK034-032009-
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the lower S-facing slope of Kilmacoliver Hill, overlooking the valley of the River Suir, S of Kilkieran graveyard (KK034-032002-) which is associated with the early medieval monastery of Kilkieran. Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 245) relates a legend associated with St Kieran which says that the saint, 'lived in a small house in Mrs. Laurence's corn-haggard, one field south of Kilkieran church [KK034-032001-]'. There is a possibility that the saint occupied a cell S of Kilkieran, however, even if this was true, the precise location is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 15 August 2018
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.