Waterford Castle

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Waterford Castle
The ferry to Little Island

Waterford Castle ( Irish Caisleán Phort Láirge ) is a country house on Little Iceland in Waterford in Ireland's County Waterford . The property with the house and before the castle belonged to the Fitzgerald family for hundreds of years . In the 1980s, the country house was converted into a hotel.

Former castle

The original castle of the FitzGeralds was probably a tower house or a permanent house and was described as "a square building with battlements , built in the 16th century, with a pointed arched entrance and a window flanked with a stone head". The family branch of the FitzGeralds, which Waterford Castle belonged, consisted of descendants of Patrick FitzGerald , the "de jure" 6th Earl of Kildare .

Today's country house

The current country house was built by Gerald Purcell-FitzGerald (1865-1946) in 1895 as a neo-Gothic house, which contained building blocks from an earlier house (before 1845) and parts of the earlier Tower House (before 1645). The plans came from Romayne Walker and Albert Murray (1849–1924) was in charge of construction. Uncut quarry stone was used as building material and finely hewn stone for the corner stones, window frames and Irish battlements .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Historic Environment Viewer . Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Geeltacht Affaires, Government of Ireland. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ Person Page: John Fitz Maurice FitzGerald . In: The Peerage . Retrieved May 27, 2019.
  3. ↑ Person Page: Gerald Purcell-FitzGerald . In: The Peerage . Retrieved May 27, 2019.
  4. ↑ Main Record: County Waterfoed (Waterfoed Castle Hotel (Island Castle) County Waterford) . In: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage . Retrieved May 27, 2019.

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '12 "  N , 7 ° 3' 33.4"  W.