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Gowran, Co.Kilkenny

• References:
  • A History of St.Mary's Church, Gowran, by Imelda Kehoe.

Gowran, Co.Kilkenny. See satellite view.
Gowran Castle was seat of Butler.
St. Mary's Collegiate Church was burial place of Butler.

Gowran was seat of Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick .
He died 1321 and was buried at St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Gowran.
Gowran was seat of his son James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond.
He died 1338 and was buried at St. Mary's Collegiate Church.
Effigies survive there of either him and his wife, or else of his father Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick, and wife.

James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond built Gowran Castle in 1385.
He died 1405, at Gowran Castle, and was buried at St. Mary's Collegiate Church.

The old Gowran Castle is gone.
The new building at Gowran Castle is 18th century.
See street view of church.
See Wikimedia Commons.

"Gowran Abbey" (St. Mary's Collegiate Church).
Drawn by Gabriel Beranger. Late 18th century.
From Royal Irish Academy. Image from here. Creative Commons Non-Commercial use.
See full size.

Gowran, Co.Kilkenny.
From 1887 to 1913 map.
"Gowran Castle" here is an 18th century building.
The site of the old Gowran Castle is marked.

2009 screenshot of street view of boundary wall to E side of Gowran Castle.