Waterford Castle

The house was owned by a branch of the Fitzgerald family for hundreds of years, but was developed into a hotel in the 1980s.

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.

[citation needed] The current castle is a Gothic-style house built in 1895 for Gerald Purcell-Fitzgerald (1865-1946)[citation needed] 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.