Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Glenmorrishmeen, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenmorrishmeen
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Glen Farm
- Coordinates
- 52.14031, -7.96016
- SMR number
- WA020-015----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 NE-facing slope of a small S-N glen on the S side of the floodplain of the W-E Blackwater River, with the stream c. 300m to the N. The ruins of a castle are depicted on a Scalé map of 1773 (NLI: ms. 7217, 9). It is not visible at ground level.
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.
Date of upload: 20 October 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
- Church1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.