What is recorded here

Indicated is a vanished fish-pond beside Killahy Castle in County Kilkenny, mapped in 1839 but absent by 1900. Carrigan wrote in 1905 that the fine mansion of about 1700 had both its fish-pond and lake dried up. The rectangular basin may still lie under the valley grassland, holding no water but keeping the shape of a house that stopped being seen.

On the floor of a valley, in mostly reclaimed grassland. Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 376), describes the 'extensive ruins of a fine mansion of about the year 1700, with fish-pond and lake, both dried up'. A rectangular feature (dims. c. 23m x c. 4m), possibly the fish-pond, is located c. 15m SE of the Killahy Castle (KK013-069001-) on the 1st (1839) ed. 6-inch OS map. The fish-pond is not indicated on the subsequent 1900 edition. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 December 2016

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