Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Glen Lower (upperthird By.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glen Lower (upperthird By.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Glen Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Glen Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.35942, -7.52879
- SMR number
- WA002-007001-
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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
Located on a slight rise in the floodplain of the W-E River Suir and owned by James Everard in 1640 (Simington 1942, 102). The castle is indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) map and terrier. Built of limestone rubble, roughly coursed (wall T 1.95m excluding base-base) with an external base-batter (H 2.9m; Wth 0.25m). Only the SW wall (L 10.5m), with one double-splay opening, survives to a height of c. 5m with evidence of a barrel vault NW-SE and four corbels to support a loft level are surviving. At the S end of the wall there are the remains of an internal wall (T 0.9m) projecting towards the SE, possibly the internal wall of an entrance lobby. A datestone (WA002-007002-) which reads 'IFE 1676' refers to Ian Francis Everard and is built into the S wall of a house c. 30m to the NNE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 13 May 2013
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1942 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol VI: county of Waterford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.