Lord Galmoys Catle (in ruins) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Lord Galmoys Castle stood in ruins beside a small Kilkenny field when first mapped in 1839, but even its memory had vanished by 1900. What remains is a name dropped into grass and a suggestion that someone once built walls there. The land keeps the shape of the story while withholding the facts.

Located c. 80m S of a river which joins the River Barrow c. 1.5km to the E, in a small field immediately N of a farmyard. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map it is described as, ‘Lord Galmoys Castle (in ruins)’ and a small rectangular building is depicted (dims. c. 8m N-S; c. 4m E-W). By the 1900 revision the above ground remains appear to have gone as it is depicted as, ‘Lord Galmoys Castle (Site of)’. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 April 2021

Lord Galmoys Castle was built in the 17th century by the Galmoys family, an old Irish Catholic noble family with historical ties to the region. The castle is remembered for its association with local gentry and as a rare example of early modern domestic architecture in the area, now preserved only in ruins.

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