Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - fortified house
Seskin (talbotstown Upper By.), County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Seskin (talbotstown Upper By.)
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Seskin Ho. in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.98708, -6.55108
- SMR number
- WI022-010----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the S side of a system of small fields enclosed by high, well- constructed walls known as 'the Orchard', of 18th- and 19th-century date. Raised square platform (dims. 50m x 50m; H 0.8m) known locally as the site of a fortified house built c. 1700 by Colonel Percy and marked 'Seskin House (in Ruins)' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. (O'Flanagan 1928, 59)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.