Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Camphire, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Camphire
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.08895, -7.86507
- SMR number
- WA029-033----
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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
Located on the W bank of the N-S Blackwater River. This is a rectangular tower house (ext. dims. c. 12.5m E-W; c.10.35m N-S) with a base-batter (max. H 2.5m) and cut-stone quoins partly surviving to the first floor. The remains of newel stairs at the SW angle and a garderobe chute in the E wall survive at first-floor level. There is no evidence of vaulting.
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
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial ground1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.