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Castle - tower house

Glen Lower (Upperthird By.), County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Glen Lower, 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
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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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

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

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

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