
What is recorded here
Killaveny holds a castle only in memory. The valley widens beneath a SE-facing slope where people once pointed and named a missing hall. No stone remains to prove the shape of that hall, yet the land still repeats the claim. Forgetting built the castle twice: once in timber or rock, once in the voices that refuse to stop seeing it.
Situated on a marked SE-facing slope, at a point where the narrow valley widens. According to Price (1946, 76) there was a strong local tradition of a castle at this site, although there is no evidence at ground level.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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