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Castle - unclassified

Carrigcastle, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Carrigcastle, 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
Carrigcastle
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Mandevilles Rock
Coordinates
52.16679, -7.39607
SMR number
WA024-038----

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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

Located on top of rock outcrop. According to the OS letters of c. 1841 (O'Flanagan 1929, 26), followed by Power (1952, 117-8), a castle from which this townland took its name, is reputed to have been located on rock outcrop here. There is no other evidence of this castle, unless it is the stone house (WA024-079----) recorded on the terrier of the Down Survey map of Ballylanneen parish (1654-5). Nothing is 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.

Compiled by: Michael Moore.

Date of upload/revision: 9th May, 2011.

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1929 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Waterford collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Bray.

Power, P. 1952 The placenames of the Decies (second ed.). Cork University Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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