Dunhill Castle History-The Powers of Waterford Ireland
The la Poer family built the Dunhill castle in the early 1200’s. There is some evidence of an earlier Celtic fort on the hilltop also. The town's name is derived from the Irish translation of the fort of the rock. The impressive silhouette comprises only about half a fifteenth century tower with bits of outer walls dating to the early thirteenth century.
Between the castle and church would have stood the medieval village of Dunhill which was basically a string of wooden houses. Attached to the front of the church was a small tower in which the priest lived.
The castle had an interesting and chequered history. The la Poer’s (Power) of Dunhill were infamous in the 14th century, as they launched many attacks on Waterford City. In 1345 they destroyed the area around city but were counter-attacked, taken prisoner and hanged. The remaining members of the Power clan join forces with the O’ Driscoll family. This alliance would attack Waterford many times over the next 100 years, with both success and failure. After a defeat in Tramore in 1368 the castle passed to the Powers of Kilmeaden. It remained in their control until the Cromwellian attack on Dunhill and its first capture (legend of gunners and buttermilk) in 1649.
Once regarded as impregnable, the castle was besieged and sacked, with the outer defences destroyed as well as tower beside the church. Fate of last Lord of Dunhill and Kilmeaden, John Power, and his family were unknown. The Castle and lands were then given to Sir John Cole with the church given to Waterford Corporation. Cole and his decedents never lived in the castle and the church was disused, with the result that timbers rotted and both fell into ruins during the 1700’s. More deterioration was recorded in 1912 when the east wall of the castle collapsed during a storm.
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Now empty and forlorn you watch the seasons come and go, but what care you for summer sun, or a fall of winter snow.
The ivy now grows green around your ancient walls, no music now or song from within your banquet hall.
No noise around you now but the lowing of the cattle, but if I stand and listen I might hear the sound of battle.
Cromwell came, his soldiers lay siege, they attacked and attacked again, but each attack was bravely met by your Mistress and her men.
Around your ground and ramparts the sound of sword and gun, after many days battle Cromwell's soldiers were on the run;
But then disaster struck and all because of a drink, no, not the alcoholic kind but a keg of buttermilk.
The chief gunner was dissatisfied, he expected a stronger brew, so above your battered walls the surrender flag he flew.
Cromwell's soldiers gained entry, revenge was in their eyes, they blew up the castle and your Mistress bravely died.
From inside your broken walls smoke curled up to the sky, but no one loves a traitor, so they hung the gunner high.
Now, a ruin, you gaze across that lonely Annestown bog, where you watched them cut the turf in summers now long gone.
You tower above that winding road, a reminder of the past, below you now on that same road cars and tractors travel fast.
But you go back for centuries, perhaps you can recall when there was no road, just a path through oak trees big and tall.
In this peaceful valley now the songbirds sweetly sing, the river Ann flows gently by the ruined castle of Dunhill;
and if you pass this way going to Annestown or Tramore, as you gaze up at the castle, you might see the Mistress Dé La Poer;
Is that her wandering there? Where she fought and died so proud, or perhaps it's a trick of light, the shadow of a passing cloud.
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