Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Walterstown (nurney Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Walterstown (nurney Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.09709, -6.94764
- SMR number
- KD027-026----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the moderately steep W-slope of ‘Pigeon House Hill’, overlooking a small W-flowing stream c. 35m to the S. A possible nunnery (KD027-025----) and graveyard (KD027-025001-) lie c. 120m to the WNW, and a church (KD027-027----) and graveyard (KD027-027001-) lie c. 125m to the SSW. The 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map records the ‘Site of’ a second castle (KD027-028----) c. 180m to the ESE. In 1837, according to O’Conor’s Ordnance Survey Letter (Herity 2002, 145 (157)), ‘A small (part of the) ‘buttment’ of a Castle is to be seen … It is said that a family of the Fitzgeralds, originally had this castle in their possession.’ A very small portion of mortared masonry (1.5m N-S; 1.1m E-W; H 0.3-1.5m) with some inner and outer facing stones appears to survive in situ. A larger portion of displaced masonry (2m by 1.3m; H 1.6m) lies immediately to the S.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 October 2012
References
Herity, M. (ed.) 2002 Ordnance Survey Letters Kildare. Dublin. Four Masters Press.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.