What is recorded here

Adamstown is a castle that vanished before anyone could draw it, leaving only a grassy slope and a field name to prove it existed. The Down Survey mapped a thatched stone house there in 1655, yet people still called the ground castle field generations later, as if memory could build walls no longer visible. Maurice Power owned the land in 1640, but the castle itself may have been little more than a boundary marker, a lost tower or a story repeated until it became fact.

Situated towards the bottom of a W-facing, grass-covered slope. A thatched stone house is recorded on the terrier of the Down Survey map of Kilmeaden parish (1655-6) at Adamstown, and the land at Adamstown was owned by Maurice Power in 1640 (Simington 1942, 138). This field was known as the 'castle field' in the 19th century according to J. O'Donovan (O'Flanagan 1929, 25), but there is no visible evidence of a castle 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 7th June, 2011.

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