What is recorded here

Glenmagoo held a strong castle founded by Mairgréad Ni Gheróid, whose walls stood until 1824 while cellars still lie beneath the soil. The square rampart and deep fosse marked a place where Ormond power reached into ordinary Kilkenny fields. People may have lived, feared or feasted inside that bawn before memory thinned, but the earth still keeps the shape of their choices.

According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 161), ‘There was a strong castle here, about 200 yards east of the new road from Castlecomer to Ballyragget. If tradition be reliable it was founded by Mairgréad Ni Gheróid, the famous Countess of Ormond. Portion of the walls stood till 1824. The cellars still remain beneath the surface. The site is enclosed by a square rampart defended by a deep fosse [KK005-050002-]’. The precise location of the castle and bawn within Glenmagoo or Firoda Lower are unknown, however, it is likely that a moated site (KK005-069----), identified in 1987 within the townland, is the castle and bawn described by Carrigan. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 May 2017

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