Gorteens Castle

Gorteens Castle is located on private land in Co. Kilkenny near the village of Slieverue close to Waterford city.

The ruin consists of a gatehouse that would have belonged to a larger structure.[1]

It was originally the property of the FitzGerald family,[2] a powerful Anglo-Norman aristocratic dynasty in medieval Ireland. John FitzGerald is recorded as being the last FitzGerald holder of Gorteens[3] and forfeited it during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.

View of Gorteens Castle and surrounding farm yard on private land

References

  1. ↑ http://www.excavations.ie/report/1993/Kilkenny/0001514/
  2. ↑ O'Kelly, Owen (1985). The Place-Names of County Kilkenny. Boethius Press. ISBN 0-9501687-8-5.
  3. ↑ http://www.excavations.ie/report/1993/Kilkenny/0001514/

Coordinates: 52°16′13″N 7°02′41″W / 52.27037°N 7.04473°W / 52.27037; -7.04473


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