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Waterford Castle is a historic house on Little Island in Waterford, Ireland. The house was owned by a branch of the Fitzgerald family for hundreds of years, but was developed into a hotel in the 1980s.
Earlier castle
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The original Fitzgerald castle was probably a tower-house or fortified house and was described as a square building with battlements erected in the 16th century, with a pointed doorway and a window flanked by a stone head.[1] The branch of the Fitzgerald family that owned Waterford Castle were the descendants of Patrick Fitzgerald, son of the de jure 6th Earl of Kildare.[2]
Current house
[edit]The current castle is a Gothic-style house built in 1895 for Gerald Purcell-Fitzgerald (1865-1946)[3] which incorporates the fabric of an earlier (pre-1845) house, and parts of the medieval (pre-1645) tower-house. The designs were prepared by Romayne Walker and supervised by Albert Murrary (1849 - 1924). The construction is in unrefined rubble stone with fine cut-stone quoins and window frames and topped with Irish-style battlements.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Person Page". Thepeerage.com. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ "Person Page". Thepeerage.com. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ "Ua Floinn Tailors Additional Images: Buildings of Ireland: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage". Buildingsofireland.ie. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
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