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Barracks

Newtown (Gaultiere By., Crooke Par.), County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barracks, Newtown (Gaultiere By., Crooke Par.), County Waterford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Newtown (Gaultiere By., Crooke Par.)
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Geneve Barracks (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Geneva Barracks (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.21904, -6.98032
SMR number
WA018-024----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on top of cliffs on the W side of the Barrow/Suir estuary. An ideal town was planned to accommodate Genevan democrats displaced during the Swiss revolution in 1782. Grants of land at Newtown, Co. Waterford and Passage amounting to 11,000 acres, as well as money were made by Lord Temple, the Viceroy, to build 50 houses as well as public buildings and an Academy. However the immigrants never arrived and the town failed to materialise (Butler 1947). A military barracks was erected on the site in the 1780s which functioned as a prison during the 1798 Rebellion, but it was abandoned by 1841. This is a subrectangular area (dims. c. 250m N-S; c. 240m E-W) defined by mortared stone walls (H 3-4m) with corner bastions, all of which survive except that at the SE. The remains of a terrace of buildings survive parallel to the N wall, which also has an entrance gate. (Butler 1912; 1913; 1914; Decie 1983, 46; Dowling 1985)

Butler, H. (1947) New Geneva in Waterford, JRSAI 77, 150-5.
Butler, M. (1912) New Geneva; some correspondence relating to its foundation, WAJ, 15, 181-94.
Butler, M. (1913) New Geneva; some correspondence relating to its foundation (continued), WAJ, 16, 1-17, 86-92.
Butler, M. (1914) New Geneva; some correspondence relating to its foundation, WAJ, 17, 164-9.
Decie (1983) Old Waterford Society Survey, Decies No. 24, 42-57.
Dowling, D. (1985) New Geneva, Decies, No. 29, 32-40

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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