Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - formal garden
Knockrath Big, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockrath Big
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 52.97350, -6.28460
- SMR number
- WI023-036001-
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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 a marked N-facing slope in pasture with commanding views over the Avonmore Valley. Price (1933, 240-41) described the foundations of a 17th-century O'Byrne castle (wi023-036----) with a circular tower at the NE corner standing on the eastern side of a large rectangular enclosure which may have enclosed the formal garden of the castle. No trace now remains apart from the earthworks which consist of two large conjoined terraced enclosures (W enclosure dims. 170m N-S; 63m E-W; E enclosure dims. 105m N-S; 67m E-W). The enclosures are linked by a well-defined causeway.
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.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: 17 October 2012
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structure1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.