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Castle - unclassified

Oldcourt (Talbotstown Lower By.), County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Oldcourt, County Wicklow, 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
Oldcourt (Talbotstown Lower By.)
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Site of Castle
Latest-edition OS map
Castle (Site of)
Coordinates
53.17605, -6.47438
SMR number
WI005-034----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a very gentle W-facing slope in a marshy area. No surface remains visible, slightly raised ground (H c. 0.3m) in area where ‘Site of Castle’ is marked on Ordnance Survey maps. Levelled castle location indicated as a narrow rectangular area in dotted outline on 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map.

Please note that the description published in the 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997) for this monument, Inventory No. 1997, p. 185, refers in error to Oldcourt Castle in Bray (WI008-002----), Co. Wicklow.

The National Monuments Service is indebted to Mr Peter Halligan for drawing this error to our attention.

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien and Gearóid Conroy

Date of uploads: 10 May 2016 and 15 November 2022

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1928 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Wicklow collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.

Nearby in the register

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

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