What is recorded here

Kilbrickan still hides a castle beside the Kings River, though no wall or gate remains visible to mark its exact spot. The Down Survey mapped the structure in 1655, and Carrigan later called the area the Street of the Big House, suggesting the castle stood close enough to shape local memory for generations. It may have been a residence, a guard post or a neglected ruin when drawn, but the river and field have taken back its edges.

The Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Shillelogher, Co. Kilkenny (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin) depicts a castle in the S portion of the 17th-century townland of 'Killbracan' which equates with the modern townland of Kilbrickan. Another large building, which appears to be a house (KK026-027----), is depicted S of it, on the N bank of the Kings River. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 335) refers to, 'a castle here, close to the King's River, in a field called Srawdh-a-tee-moozh [Stáid an tí mhóir], or Street of the Big House'. The precise location of the castle is unknown within the S portion of Kilbrickan townland.

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