What is recorded here

Kilkenny Castle’s greatest stable stood east of the outer defences, a double building large enough to hold two thousand barrels of wheat when lofted. It served the castle and neighbouring men through the seventeenth century, still receiving corporate repair money in 1719. The ground has forgotten its walls, but the scale of the chamber remains written in the survey and the shape of the land.

Outside of the outer ward defences to the E of Kilkenny Castle (KK019-026078-), a large mid-17th century stable and grain stand identified in a 2010 geophysical survey (Gimson 2010, unpublished; Ó Drisceoil 2020, unpublished). The 1654-6 Civil Survey records a large stable and a hay stand in a yard outside the 'outergate' of the castle: 'The greate Stable being a dubble building devided into two parts ye back part all in one in wch are Beames laid to make Lofts wch if repaired would hold 2000 barells of wheat (96 feet [c. 29m] x 38 feet [c. 11.6m]). Belonging to ye aforesaid Castle Is a plot of ground neere ye said Stable where ye Publique Store of hey was kept Cont 40 perches small Measure' (Simington 1934, vol. 6, 534-5). In 1719 moneys were assigned by Kilkenny Corporation 'for repairing the castle stables...' (Corporation Minutes 20.01.1719 (p. 114)). Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisecoil Date of upload: 11 November 2020

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