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Castle - unclassified

Hacketstown (Decies within Drum By.), County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Hacketstown, 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
Hacketstown (Decies within Drum By.)
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Site of Castle
Latest-edition OS map
Castle (Site of)
Coordinates
51.99569, -7.60882
SMR number
WA039-011----

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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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located in pasture on a plateau on the W side of the NNW-SSE Ballymacart river valley with the stream c. 230m to the E. A castle on land owned by Philip Rowe in 1641 is recorded in the Civil Survey of 1654-6 (Simington 1942, 57). It is not visible at ground level.

Simington, R. C. (ed.) (1942) The civil Survey AD 1654-1656, vi, the County of Waterford. Irish Manuscripts Commission. Dublin.

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.

Compiiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload/revision: 17 October 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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