Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Castlequarter (decies Without Drum By., Kilrossanty Par.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlequarter (decies Without Drum By., Kilrossanty Par.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.13316, -7.52309
- SMR number
- WA023-035001-
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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 towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. The castle of Ballykeeroge was granted to Sir Nicholas Walshe in 1587 (Grattan-Flood 1901a). It is described as a ruined castle with a large bawn, an orchard, a pigeon house and several cabins in the Civil Survey of c. 1655 that had been owned by Sir Nicholas Walshe in 1641 (Simington 1942, 80). The ruin is marked on a Taylor and Skinner map (1778, 165). The remains consist of a cairn of rubble (dims. 22m x 9m; H 2-3m) with two chamfered and rebated limestone jambstones from a pointed doorway.
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/revision: 26th September, 2011. Compiled by: Michael Moore.
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1942 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol VI: county of Waterford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Flood, W.H. Grattan 1901 Notes and queries - Ballycaroge castle, Co. Waterford. Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Journal 7, 101.
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.