Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Feddans, County Waterford, Ireland
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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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
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
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.