Gorteens Castle

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Gorteens Castle
The remains of the gatehouse of Gorteens Castle and the surrounding farm

The remains of the gatehouse of Gorteens Castle and the surrounding farm

Alternative name (s): Caisleán na nGoirtíní
Creation time : 16th Century
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Irish nobility
Construction: Quarry stone
Place: Slieverue
Geographical location 52 ° 16 '13.3 "  N , 7 ° 2' 41"  W Coordinates: 52 ° 16 '13.3 "  N , 7 ° 2' 41"  W.
Height: 25  m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference
Gorteens Castle (Ireland)
Gorteens Castle

Gorteens Castle ( Irish Caisleán na nGoirtíní ) is the ruin of a low castle on private property near the village of Slieverue in County Kilkenny, Ireland near the city of Waterford .

The ruins consist of a gatehouse , which probably belonged to a larger building complex. The name “Gorteens” is an Anglicization of the Irish Gaelic “na goirtíní” (German: “small fields”). Archaeological excavations near the castle in 1993 revealed that the site was used between the 16th and 18th centuries; Further excavations in 2003 brought more castle walls and outbuildings to light.

owner

The castle originally belonged to the FitzGerald family , an Anglo-Norman dynasty in medieval Ireland. Gorteens Castle is described in the Down Survey of Ireland of 1656 as being in the Baronates of Ida , Igrim and Ibercon and in the parish of Rathpatricke . John FitzGerald , a Catholic , is recorded as the last owner of the castle from the FitzGerald family. During the Recapture of Ireland, the FitzGeralds forfeited the castle and were relegated to Connaught in December 1653 before being assigned the lands of Turlough and Carra in County Mayo in 1677 .

In 1670, Gorteen's Castle was reportedly in the hands of Samuel Skrimsheire or Skrimshaw , a Protestant . In 1700 it belonged to members of the Forstall family .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland: Adapted to the New Poor-law, Franchise, Municipal and Ecclesiastical Arrangements, and Compiled with a Special Reference to the Lines of Railroad and Canal Communication, as Existing in 1814-45 . Volume III. A. Fullarton and Company, 1846. p. 139.
  2. ↑ a b Heather A. King: Gorteens. Sites and Monuments Record No .: SMR 047: 01 & 02. License number: 93E0013 . In: Record for County: Kilkenny . Skidoo, Ballyboughal, Co Dublin. 1993. Retrieved February 8, 2019.
  3. ^ A b Michael Ponsford: Post-medieval Britain and Ireland in 1993 in Post-Medieval Archeology . 1994. pp. 119-183.
  4. ↑ logainm.ie
  5. ↑ Fintan Walsh: Gorteens Castle. Sites and Monuments Record No .: SMR 47: 1 License number: 03E0255 . In: Record for County: Kilkenny . Irish Archaeological Consultancy. 2003. Retrieved February 8, 2019.
  6. ^ Owen O'Kelly: The Place-Names of County Kilkenny . Boethius Press, 1985. ISBN 0-9501687-8-5 .
  7. ^ William Carrigan: The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory . Sealy, Bryers, & Walker. 1905. Retrieved February 8, 2019.
  8. ^ The Down Survey of Ireland . Trinity College Dublin. 2013. Accessed February 8, 2019.
  9. ^ Stanley Clisby Arthur, George Campbell Huchet de Kernion: '' Old Families in Louisiana ''. Genealogical Publishing, 2009. p. 114.
  10. ^ John M. Hearne, Rory T. Cornish: Thomas Francis Meagher: The Making of an Irish American . Irish Academic Press. 2006. Retrieved February 8, 2019.

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