What is recorded here

A nearly square stone set into the south wall of The White Castle records that Richard Cossen, provost of Athy, placed it on the twenty-seventh of June 1575 during the seventeenth year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. Tradition holds the stone surfaced near the castle mill around 1770 or 1780 before finding its present home beside the original doorway. Its Latin letters, cut in false relief, preserve a small civic boast from a town still learning how to display itself under a distant crown.

Affixed to the S wall, and to the E of the original doorway of The White Castle (KD035-022010-). An almost square stone (H 0.43m; Wth 0.48m) bearing a Latin inscription in Roman lettering in false relief. It translates as follows: ‘Richard Cossen, provost of the town of Athy, placed this stone the twenty seventh of the month of June A.D. 1575, and in the seventeenth year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. Molhen O’Kelly’. A manuscript presented to the Duke of Leinster in 1857 states that this stone was found c. 1770-80 in the old mill attached to the castle. There is an armorial stone (KD035-022024-) on the other side of the doorway. (Bradley et al. 1986a, vol. 1, 47). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 11 December 2013

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