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Site of Castle in Clonea Lower

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Located in pasture on a slight rise in a level, low-lying landscape, with the canalised N-S Douglas stream c. 60m to the W. It is marked faintly as a two-cell structure on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. There are no references to a castle here, although the land was owned by Theobald Fitzgerald in 1640 (Simington 1942, 76). Nothing is visible at ground level. Clonea church (WA031-037001-) is c. 240m to the NNE. Simington, R. C. (ed.) (1942) The Civil Survey AD 1654-1656, vi, the County of Waterford. Irish Manuscripts Commission. Dublin.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA031-038

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