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Nurney Castle vanished so completely that Walter Fitzgerald later built his house directly upon its remains, forcing the Baggots and everyone else to forget the exact shape of the place. The ridge still holds a vaulted basement full of red brick beside a small west-flowing stream, while another set of castle ruins waits one hundred and eighty metres to the west. What is missing is not a gap in the story but the shape of the story: a castle absorbed into a house, a house absorbed into a field, a field absorbed into a map label that points at nothing visible.

On the E-face of a low pasture ridge, skirted E-N-NW by a small W-flowing stream. The ruins of a second castle (KD027-026----) lie c. 180m to the WNW. Recorded on the latest ed. (1939) of the OS 6-inch map as ‘Nurney Castle on site of Castle’. In 1837, according to O’Conor’s Ordnance Survey Letter (Herity 2002, 146 (157)), ‘And to Walter Fitzgerald’s house is attached part of an old Castle, of which, the Baggots, are said to have been the original proprietors’. Nurney House appears to have been an 18th-century structure (OPW Topographical files), of which only the vaulted basement, containing a lot of red brick, survives. There is no visible surface trace of the earlier castle. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 october 2012

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