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House - 17th century

Norrisland, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - 17th century, Norrisland, 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
Norrisland
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Tourin Castle (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Tourin Castle (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.12993, -7.85457
SMR number
WA029-011----

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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 a shelf overlooking the N-S River Blackwater, which is c. 180m to the E. Land at Norrisland was sold by Sir Walter Raleigh to Sir Richard Boyle in 1591 (O'Connell-Redmond 1918, 103), and the land was owned by William Gratix or 'Greatacres' in 1641 (Simington 1942, 12), but there is no mention of a house.

The house is a rectangular structure (ext. dims. c. 10m x c. 8m) of three storeys with projecting rectangular corner towers at the NE and SW angles, and there is a projecting half tower towards the E end of the S wall, but only the SW tower (int. dims. 3.55m x 3.44m) survives fully. The N wall of the house is entirely missing and the other walls are reduced to the ground floor (H c. 3m). A chimney flue is broken out in the W gable and the half tower on the S wall has a small window and a single light at ground level. The SW tower has three surviving lights and perhaps two destroyed lights at ground level. Its first floor has a blocked light, two destroyed windows, and a fireplace in the W wall, while the second storey has two destroyed windows and a fireplace in the W wall with a tall chimney stack rising over it.

O'Connell-Redmond, G. (1918) The castles of north-east Cork and near its borders. JCHAS 24, 1-6, 62-6, 93-103, 145-51.
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: 21 July 2011

References

Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1942 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol VI: county of Waterford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.

Nearby in the register

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

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