St Marys Church, Gowran, Kilkenny, Ireland
In the centre of Gowran village is the historic St Marys Collegiate Church which contains monuments from the 14th to 17th centuries. This collegiate church was built in 1225 on the site of an earlier monastery. Some fine effigies and tombs can be seen here, including what may be the tombs of the 1st and 3rd Earls of Ormonde. It was served by a college clerics who lived in a community but who did not submit to the rule of a monastery. They lived in a house, now destroyed, beside the church. The church was a large and elaborate structure, with an aisled nave the main part of the church where the congregation sat and a long chancel the section of the church where the altar was placed and has high quality architectural sculpture used throughout. A tower was added in the 14th or 15 century and it now incorporates the ruins of the 19th century church which was built in place of the chancel and which now takes up about half of the building
Ghost of ~Ballyshawnmore Castle
Ghost of ~Ballyshawnmore Castle
This is a fine building, located on a small road leading between Gowran village and the race course. The Butlers were in possession of the lands in the Gowran area for almost 500 years . In addition to building Gowran Castle, Butlers built other castles in the area such as Ballysean Castle (Sometimes spelt Ballyshawnmore, Ballysheanmor, Ballyshanemore) near the centre of Gowran, Neigham Castle 4 km from Gowran and Paulstown Castle situated between Gowran and Paulstown 3 km from Gowran.
A long time ago a ghostly - hound used to travel from Bally-Seán in Gowran along the middle of the road to another castle in Castlewaren (Castlewarden?). Many people who travelled late at night would see him and described him as a big black hound about the size off an ass and they would hear him walking a good distance away, Old people say that it was some old King or Chieftain that was changed into a hound and that was the law imposed on him...
Gowran had been a settled place and a place of importance long before the arrival of the Normans in Ireland in 1169 A.D. Kings of Ossory were often referred to as kings of Gowran. The Mac Giolla Padraig (Modern day family name Fitzpatrick), Chief Rulers of Ossory, had a residence in Gowran. O’Donnchadha (Dunphy) was the chief of Gowran and most of the area around it. Local place names like Rathvaun, Rathcash, Rathcusack, and Rathgarvan, signified the presence of raths where people lived, farmed and foraged for a livelihood. Raths were also burial places. Larger sites were called Duns. The village of Dungarvan (Co. Kilkenny) also in the parish of Gowran is another example of such a settlement The presence of the 3rd/4th Century Christianised Ogham stone on display in the historic St. Mary’s Collegiate Church Gowran would also indicate a place of residence and worship dating back 2000 years.
The first Gowran Castle was built in 1385 by James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond, close to the centre of the town of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland. He made it his usual residence. Gowran Castle is located in the centre of Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland. The castle is a manor house and was fully restored between 2013 and 2014.
There are other ancient sites close to Gowran. For example, nearby Tullaherin Church, graveyard and Round Tower dating to the 6th Century. Freestone Hill situated 4 km from Gowran was a Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement where Roman coins and other artefacts were found during archaeological surveys in 1948 and 1951.
Photos of the church here
Castlewarren , previously known as Buile (pronounced Boula), is a small village in County Kilkenny, Ireland, located some 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) north of the N10 national primary road at Flagmount. The castle site is on top of a ridge 200 metres (660 ft) above sea level.
Ghost Story
About a century ago there lived in the borders of Castlewarden wood a woman who's name is now forgotten by the local people. This woman was out of her mind and she hung herself out of a large tree on the edge of the wood, when she was discovered by the people they took her down and buried her. When some people would be passing that way late at night they might see her sitting under the tree. and when they would see light of a lamp, or light of a candle after that they would faint.
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Kilkenny Castle And Its History
Kilkenny castle built 1195 by William marshall 1st earl of Pembroke
to control a fording-point of the river nore and the junction of several
routeways,it was of normal occupation and in its original thirteenth-
century condition it would have an important element of the defencies of the town with four large circular corner towers and a massive ditch,part of which can be still seen today on the parade
(BUTLER DYNESTY) james butler 3rd earl of Ormond bought the
castle in in1391 and established himself as ruler of the area this
james built gowran castle in 1385 and made it his usual residence
he is buried in st Mary's collegiate church gowran james was
called the earl of gowran the butler dynesty then ruled the
surrounding area for centuries they were earls marqesses and
dukes of Ormond lady Margaret butler was born in Kilkenny castle
she was married to sir William Boleyn who was the paternal grandmother
of ann Boleyn second wife of king henry the V111 of England
the butler name was first FITZWALTER they changed it to
butler in1185
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Ogham (; Modern Irish [ˈoːmˠ] or [ˈoːəmˠ]; Old Irish: ogam [ˈɔɣamˠ]) is an Early Medieval alphabet used to write the early Irish language (in the orthodox inscriptions, 1st to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish language (scholastic ogham, 6th to 9th centuries). There are roughly 400 surviving orthodox inscriptions on stone monuments throughout Ireland and western Britain; the bulk of which are in southern Munster. The largest number outside Ireland are in Pembrokeshire, Wales.The vast majority of the inscriptions consist of personal names.
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Ogham (; Modern Irish [ˈoːmˠ] or [ˈoːəmˠ]; Old Irish: ogam [ˈɔɣamˠ]) is an Early Medieval alphabet used to write the early Irish language (in the orthodox inscriptions, 1st to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish language (scholastic ogham, 6th to 9th centuries). There are roughly 400 surviving orthodox inscriptions on stone monuments throughout Ireland and western Britain; the bulk of which are in southern Munster. The largest number outside Ireland are in Pembrokeshire, Wales.The vast majority of the inscriptions consist of personal names.
According to the High Medieval Bríatharogam, names of various trees can be ascribed to individual letters.
The etymology of the word ogam or ogham remains unclear. One possible origin is from the Irish og-úaim 'point-seam', referring to the seam made by the point of a sharp weapon.