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Castle - unclassified

Ballynaraha, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Ballynaraha, 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
Ballynaraha
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Kilnacarriga Castle (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Kilnacarriga Castle (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.09907, -7.91316
SMR number
WA029-028----

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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

Situated in a farmyard at the W side of a N-S stream on a severe S-facing slope. It ws described by O'Donovan c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1929, 70) as a 'dwelling house (int. dims. c. 12m N-S; c. 5.5m E-W) of two storeys'. There are no historical references to a castle here, but it may have been a 17th-century house. A Z-shaped wall consisting of two walls (ext. dims. 4.55m N-S; 4.14m E-W; max. H 4m) and a fragment of a third with no distinguishing features survives.

O'Flanagan, 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. Typescript. Bray.

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.

Revised by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 10 August 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.

Nearby in the register

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

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