Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Hacketstown (decies Within Drum By.), County Waterford, Ireland
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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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 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
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.