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Jenkinstown

Corclach

Tower Bridge and excavated demolition material preserve different parts of the townland’s building history.

Watercolour and fine ink illustration of The Dinin bridge near Jenkinstown, County Kilkenny, as photographed in July 2008.
Illustration, The Dinin bridge near Jenkinstown, County Kilkenny, as photographed in July 2008
Recorded locationJenkinstown52.72694° N · 7.28695° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.

Recorded forms

  • Corclach · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Jenkinstown · English · main form

Place & story

Tower Bridge over the Dinin

Tower Bridge spans the Dinin between Jenkinstown and Ballyrafton. Its architectural survey records a 1647 date plaque and widening around 1825, when improvements to the estate gave it a balustraded parapet and Classical detailing. Differences between the older rubble-stone archwork and the dressed limestone of the addition make the widening visible. The name recalls a turreted entrance lodge which no longer survives. [2]

What the service trenches revealed

Mary Henry monitored more than forty metres of service trenching at Jenkinstown House in 2021. Behind the house, she found substantial demolition material, probably used to raise ground levels after a wing was removed. An adjoining artificial slope contained imported soil and drainage. These were observations from limited trenches, rather than an excavation of the entire former house. [3]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Kilkenny
Civil parish
Mayne
Coordinates
52.72694, -7.28695
Mapped area
2.91 km²
Logainm ID
26768 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Jenkinstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Tower Bridge, NIAH 12401410, County Kilkenny survey 2004 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  3. 2021:514 Jenkinstown, licence 21E0179 · Mary Henry
  4. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  5. The Dinin bridge near Jenkinstown, County Kilkenny, as photographed in July 2008 illustration: based on a Dinin Bridge by kevin higgins. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.