O'Hanlon — Antiquities in Killenny and Kinteale Parishes. 149 



9th July, 1641. 

 It is ordered upon Question, that the title of S 1 . Robert Piggott and Cap tn . John 

 Piggott upon the whole matter as it is reported to this house this day is voted by 

 this house to be good and valid in Law. 



Copia vera. Ex r . p r . Tho. Tilson cler. Pari. doru. com. 



9th July, 1641. 

 It is ordered upon Question that the proceedings in the cause wherein Jonathan 

 Hoyle was pi*, and S r . Robert Piggott and Cap tn . Piggott Defend 13 att the Coun- 

 cell Board Concerning the Rectorys of Disert Enis & Kilteale in the Queens 

 County are by this house voted to be void, extraiudiciall and contrary to the law 

 of the land. 



Copia vera. Ex r . p r . Tho : Tilson Cler. Pari. dom. com. 



9th July, 1641. 

 It is ordered upon Question that S r . Robert Piggott and Cap tn . John Piggott shall 

 be forthwith restored to his former possession, and the meaue profhtts of the said 

 Rectorys of Enis Disert and Kilteale, since they or either of them lost the posses- 

 sion thereof since the decree made att the Councell Board. 



Copia vera. Ex r . p r . Tho : Tilson Cler. Pari. dom. com. 



The townsland of Ballyinaddock is situated within the parish 

 of Kilteale, and in the harony of Stradbally. The surface of this 

 townsland is gently undulating— the soil is of good quality — and the 

 scenery, immediately surrounding the neighbourhood, has a pleasing 

 and picturesque character. The antiquarian remains of Ballymad- 

 dock are its castle and adjoining ruins. These are placed in rather 

 a low situation, but at the head of a pretty valley, which winds along 

 in a north-eastern direction. Those ruins consist of two distincc 

 ancient buildings, erected at different periods, yet, situated in a posi- 

 tion quite contiguous to each other. One of those buildings is locally 

 denominated the " monastery ;" although it bears no external traces of 

 having been designed for ecclesiastical purposes, nor does the writer 

 know of any historical reference to warrant such designation. 



The end wall only remains, with a part of the side- wall, which is 

 perforated by a small window. The other portions have been re- 

 moved ; and they were probably employed in the erection of a barn, 

 which occupies the space between the " monastery," and the gable 

 wall of the old mansion, designated "the house of Cahernacapol, (in 

 ruins)," on the Ordnance Map of the Queen's County.'Sheet 14. The 

 walls of the " monastery" are of great thickness. The gable end 

 appears to have been breasted on the interior with a massive pile of 

 masonry, which must have served the purposes of a chimney ; although 

 at present it is in so ruinous a condition, that the use for which it had 

 been intended cannot be very accurately conjectured. The great prob- 

 ability is, that the "monastery," as locally denominated by the 

 peasantry, was only a portion of an ancient castle or mansion. A few 

 small perforations for windows, which yet remain, would serve to 

 confirm this impression, as in style they are altogether'unlike openings 



