Ballylarkin Castle

Ballylarkin Lower, Co. Kilkenny

Associated People

Robert Shortall

Coordinates:

52.722927527824325, -7.429464308400038

How was it located?

Ballylarkin was the seat of the Shortalls from the early thirteenth century.

Sources and Further Reading

Jean Farrelly, site record for KK013-016----, Archaeological Survey of Ireland.

Jean Farrelly, site record for KK013-017001-, Archaeological Survey of Ireland.

Angela Mungham, "English settlers in fourteenth century Ireland. A case study of twelve landed families of South Leinster/East Munster," MA thesis, University of Durham (2006).

Margaret Phelan, "Ballylarkin and the Shortall Family," Old Kilkenny Review (): 5-8.

Contributors

Margaret K. Smith