Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Rathgormuck, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathgormuck
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.31299, -7.49904
- SMR number
- WA003-039002-
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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
Described by J. O'Donovan c. 1838 as the stump of a castle c. 50 paces E of Rathgormuck castle (WA003-039001-) (O'Flanagan 1929, 36). He described it as ' twelve feet high, and measuring twenty nine feet eight inches by 24 feet with walls about six feet thick' (dims. c. 12m x c. 7.5m).' It still had a vaulted roof. There is no other evidence of this castle, and the location is now occupied by farm sheds, but it may have been a corner tower of the bawn (WA003-039003-) associated with the tower house (WA003-039001-).
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.