Castles and forts in County Waterford
The Discover Alone map has 124 castles and forts in County Waterford, Ireland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Waterford CastleCastleLittle Island Castle wears a 1895 Gothic skin over a medieval heart, forcing every room to share walls with centuries…
Tourin CastleCastle — tower houseTourin Castle stands as a complete four-storey limestone tower on a SE-facing slope above the Blackwater River…
Templemichael Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseTemplemichael Castle stands as a ruined five-storey tower on a narrow promontory where the Glendine and Blackwater…
Strancally CastleCastleStrancally Castle rose around 1827 for John Kiely several kilometres upriver from the medieval fortress that gave the…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedDavid Power of Shangarry owned a small decayed castle in Ross around 1640, but the stones vanished before the 1926 map…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedKilsalebeg likely occupied the lost castle and mill at Pilltown, where a narrow stream joins the Blackwater estuary.…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedKilcomeragh is a vanished castle hidden inside a private garden at the foot of Crough Hill, where Darby O’Brien owned a…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedHacketstown Castle vanished beneath ordinary pasture, leaving no ruin for eyes to find. Philip Rowe owned the land in…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedFurraleigh Castle vanished before memory, leaving only a faint rectangular shadow on an 1840 map and a field of grass…
(Site of) CastleCastle — tower houseSix metres of circular stone still break the grass at Dromana, the chopped neck of a tower that once guarded the…
site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedClonkerdin castle vanished into a Waterford pasture, leaving only a rectangular shadow on an 1840 map and a field still…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedClonea Lower hides a vanished castle in ordinary pasture, marked only by a faint two-cell shape on an 1840 map.…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastlereagh castle stood at a fork in a lane on a slight west-facing slope in County Waterford, built during the reign…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedArdeenloun East castle stood on a scrub-covered rock pinnacle above Newcastle, belonging to John Power of Dunhill by…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedAdamstown is a castle that vanished before anyone could draw it, leaving only a grassy slope and a field name to prove…
Site of Cas.Castle — unclassifiedKilmacthomas lost its castle when people removed the high bank that held it, erasing the home of John Power, Lord…
Sheanmore Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseShean More is a ruined Fitzgerald tower house on a Waterford ridge, burned by the Earl of Ormond in 1580 and later…
Semi-Lunar TowerCastleSemi-Lunar Tower stands as a castle in County Waterford, Ireland. Its shape suggests a crescent moon frozen in stone…
Rockets Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseRockets Castle stands as a circular tower on the River Suir bank, having belonged to Richard Strang in 1640 before…
Mote or TumulusCastle — motteMote or Tumulus is a castle mound on the west-facing slope above the Ballymoat stream, its flat top spanning ten metres…
MoteCastle — motte and baileyMote, Feddans is a D-shaped earthen castle on a broad Waterford plateau, quarried at the NE and hidden beneath…
MoteCastle — motteCoolbunnia is a castle motte in County Waterford, Ireland, where a broad earthen mound still rises beside a tower house…
Mocollop Castle (in ruins)Castle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleMocollop Castle is a ruined Anglo-Norman keep on a Waterford rock outcrop where James, the seventh Earl of Desmond died…
Mandevilles RockCastle — unclassifiedCarrigcastle is a castle that vanished so completely it may never have existed, yet its name still marks the rock where…
Lismore CastleCastle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleLismore Castle stands on a river bluff in County Waterford, holding a hollow square plan and musket-looped towers that…
LismoreCastle — motte and baileyLismore rises ten metres above the Blackwater floodplain, a flat-topped motte with a narrow bailey clinging to its…
Lisfinny CastleCastleLisfinny Castle, probably built around 1460 by the Earl of Desmond on a hillside above the River Bride, became a ruin…
Kilnacarriga Castle (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedKilnacarriga Castle stands as a broken Z-shaped wall inside a living farmyard, perhaps marking a two-storey dwelling…
Kilgainy Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseKilgainy Castle is a ruined tower house at the western end of a low ridge in County Waterford, probably built in the…
IndicatedBawnStrancally is a D-shaped bawn cut into a rock outcrop above the Blackwater River in County Waterford, where a tilted…
IndicatedBawnSituated towards the bottom of an E-facing slope, with the S-N Ballymoat stream c. 200m to the E. Loughdeheen was…
IndicatedBawnKnockmaon bawn is a grass-covered rectangular enclosure west of the tower house, set on a rock outcrop hillock above…
IndicatedCastle — unclassifiedGlenmorrishmeen hides a castle on a NE-facing slope above the Blackwater floodplain, though no stone still stands for…
Gurteen CastleCastleGurteen Castle stands in County Waterford, Ireland, a stone marker of human ambition beside the living land. Whether it…
Greenan Castle (in Ruins)House — fortified houseGreenan Castle stands in ruins on the west side of a low hill, reputedly built by Edward Goff in the late 16th century…
Glen Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseGlen Castle stands as a ruined tower house on a slight rise above the River Suir, marked in the Down Survey of 1655-6…
Geneva BarracksCastleGeneva Barracks began as New Geneva, a glittering colony planned for displaced artisans from Geneva, but the dream…
Dunhill CastleCastleDunhill Castle is a ruined tower house south of Dunhill in County Waterford, built by the Anglo-Norman La Poer family…
Derrinlaur Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseDerrinlaur Castle is a circular tower on the Suir floodplain where Butlers and Powers clashed from 1520, but Desmond…
Curraghmore HouseCastleCurraghmore House is a castle in County Waterford where a medieval tower survived inside a later country home. The le…
Cullen Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseCullen Castle stands as a ruined tower house on a rock outcrop in County Waterford, belonging to Francis Bryver in 1640…
Coolnamuck Castke (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseCoolnamuck Castle rose in 1588 when Geraldus Wall and Catherine Quenneforde built a defensive tower beside the…
Cloncoskoran Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseCloncoskoran Castle stands as a ruined tower house at the bottom of a gentle south-facing slope in County Waterford…
Church (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedFox's Castle is a subrectangular stone platform set into a scrub-covered rock outcrop in County Waterford. John…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedKilmeadan Castle vanished beneath a seventeen-century house, leaving only earthworks and memory on the west bank of the…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle in Hacketstown, County Waterford, lost its stones when men carried them five kilometres northwest to Whitestown.…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedGarryduff may have hidden an early castle beneath a mound, though no wall or chamber remains visible to confirm the…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle Mountrivers stood at the crest of a slope above the Finisk and Blackwater rivers, marked as a substantial…
CastleCastle — motteGallowshill rises above the low Waterford plain as a flat-topped earthen mound, perhaps a castle motte or perhaps an…
Castle Miles (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedCastle Miles stands in ruins on a broad Waterford plateau, marked on maps since 1840 but reduced today to a moated bank…
Castle, Kilmanahan CastleCastle — tower houseKilmanahan Castle stood on a bluff above the River Suir when Patrick Geogh owned it in 1640, though no earlier written…
Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseCastle (in ruins), Feddans is the broken stump of a rectangular tower still standing at the north-west corner of a…
Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseCastle (in ruins) at Dunhill, County Waterford, is a rectangular tower house perched on a rock spur above the Annestown…
Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseCrooke castle stands as a ruined tower house on a gentle slope in County Waterford, holding land granted to the Knights…
Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseCoolbunnia was a handsome castle and orchard belonging to Sir Peter Aylward around 1640, standing on a west-facing…
Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseCarrowncashlane stands as a ruined tower house on a south-facing slope in County Waterford, reduced to ground-floor…
Castle (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedCarrickahilla is a vanished castle on a Waterford rock knoll, reduced to memory after surviving as a stump into the…
Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseBallymaclode Castle stands as a ruined tower house within a living farmyard, its vaulted chamber and murder holes…
Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseBallyheeny Castle stands as a ruined tower house beside the Licky river in County Waterford, its south wall still…
Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseMcGrath's Castle in Dungarvan stood as a six-storey square tower beside an Augustinian abbey until January 1916, when…