Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - fortified house
Greenan (glenahiry By.), County Waterford, Ireland
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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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
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.