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House - fortified house

Greenan (Glenahiry By.), County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - fortified house, Greenan, County Waterford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Greenan (Glenahiry By.)
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Greenan Castle (in Ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Greenan Castle (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.34638, -7.72742
SMR number
WA001-011----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situted on the W side of a low hill. Reputedly built in the late 16th century by Edward Goff (O'Flanagan 1929, 52), it was owned by Patrick Geogh of Kilmanahan (WA001-016----) c. 1640 (Simington 1942, 89). Part of the N wall (L 4.75m) containing a spiral staircase survives, as do the fragments of two doorways in the adjacent W wall. This may have been an internal wall in what was originally a large house oriented E-W with a services tower at the E end. There is tradition of a graveyard site (WA001-012002-) 180m to the S and an earthwork site (WA001-010----) is adjacent to the N.

O'Flanagan, M. (Compiler) (1929) Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Waterford collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Typescript. Bray.
Simington, R. C. (ed.) (1942) The Civil Survey AD 1654-1656, vi, the County of Waterford. Irish Manuscripts Commission. Dublin.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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