Castle in Glenmorrishmeen, County Waterford

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What is recorded here

Situated on a NE-facing slope of a small S-N glen on the S side of the floodplain of the W-E Blackwater River, with the stream c. 300m to the N. The ruins of a castle are depicted on a Scalé map of 1773 (NLI: ms. 7217, 9). It is not visible at ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA020-015

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