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Castle - tower house

Feddans, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Feddans, 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
Feddans
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Castle (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Castle (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.29577, -7.46806
SMR number
WA007-007----

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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

Situated on a broad plateau and at the NW corner of a farmyard. Described as the 'stump of a castle' and the property of Jeffry Power in 1641 (Simington 1942, 109). Rectangular tower (int. dims. 10.55m NW-SE; 6.2m NE-SW) surviving to the springing of the barrel vault (H c. 6m) over the ground floor. The vault and the NW wall do not survive. A segmental-arched embrasure in the NE wall at ground level has a gun loop, and a similar embrasure in the SE wall may have had two. A destroyed garderobe chute is visible in the NE wall. The loft was supported on corbels in the NE and SW walls and had a window in the SE wall. The motte (WA007-006001-) and enclosure site (WA007-006002-) are c. 150m to the W.

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.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload/revision: 28 October 2010

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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