What is recorded here

Glenmorrishmeen hides a castle on a NE-facing slope above the Blackwater floodplain, though no stone still stands for anyone to touch. The disappearance is not evasion but completion: the river took back what the hill borrowed. People may have built there, loved there and forgotten the name before the water erased the angle of the walls. What remains is a castle only in the sense that a dream is a room: shaped by memory, impossible to enter, and more honest because it cannot be photographed.

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. 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: 20 October 2011

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