What is recorded here

Castlequarter is a ruined tower house on an east-facing slope in County Waterford, Ireland, once granted to Sir Nicholas Walshe in 1587. By 1655 it had decayed into a bawn, orchard, pigeon house and cabins, leaving behind only a rubble cairn and two limestone doorway stones. The place still suggests a busy household, with fruit, birds and people moving through rooms that no longer stand.

Situated towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. The castle of Ballykeeroge was granted to Sir Nicholas Walshe in 1587 (Grattan-Flood 1901a). It is described as a ruined castle with a large bawn, an orchard, a pigeon house and several cabins in the Civil Survey of c. 1655 that had been owned by Sir Nicholas Walshe in 1641 (Simington 1942, 80). The ruin is marked on a Taylor and Skinner map (1778, 165). The remains consist of a cairn of rubble (dims. 22m x 9m; H 2-3m) with two chamfered and rebated limestone jambstones from a pointed doorway. 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. Date of upload/revision: 26th September, 2011. Compiled by: Michael Moore.

Sir Nicholas Walshe was granted Castlequarter in 1587 during the Tudor period's plantation efforts in Ireland. The site is remembered for its historical association with English administration and the remains of its substantial bawn and ancillary structures.

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