Castle in Mountrivers, County Waterford

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Marked as a substantial building described as a castle on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as the site of a castle on the 1927 ed. Situated in pasture at the crest of a SW-facing slope down to the confluence of the SE-NW Finisk River to its S with the N-S Blackwater River to the W, c. 200-300m from both rivers. It is also c. 300m W of the site of Affane church, at the W end of Affane town (WA029-013----). Affane was established by 1300, and was owned by Sir Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork, in 1640 (Simington 1942, 47). J. O'Donovan recorded the ruins of a 'strong dwelling house 45ft x 19ft' (dims. c. 13.7m x 5.8m) c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1929, 70). Nothing is visible at ground level. (O'Connell-Redmond 1918, 145-6) O'Connell-Redmond, G. (1918) The castles of north-east Cork and near its borders. JCHAS 24, 1-6, 62-6, 93-103, 145-51. 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. Simington, R. C. (ed.) (1942) The Civil Survey AD 1654-1656, vi, the County of Waterford. Irish Manuscripts Commission. Dublin. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 August 2011

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA029-076

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