Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Whitfield North, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whitfield North
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WA017-067----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A castle in disrepair is recorded on the terrier of the Down Survey map of Lisnakill parish (1655-6) at Whitfieldstown, and it is marked on the Down Survey map at the N end of the townland, close to the S-N Ballymoat stream. A ruined castle at Whitesfields town, owned by Peter Dobbin of Waterford city in 1640, is recorded in the Civil Survey (1654-6) (Simington 1942, 140). It remains unlocated.
Simington, R. C. (ed.) (1942) The Civil Survey AD 1654-1656, vi, the County of Waterford. Irish Manuscripts Commission. Dublin.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 07 June 2011