Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Wingfield, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Wingfield
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX002-056----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The manor of Cromwell was granted to Sir Richard Wingfield in 1613, but it was re-named Wingfield in a re-grant of 1618 (Loeber and Stouthamer-Loeber 1987, 188–9). The manor house (WX002-032----) survived the troubles of the 1640s, but a ruined castle is recorded in the Civil Survey (1654-56) at Ballynabarney (Simington 1953, 8). The location is not known, and there are no other references to the castle, but it may have been close to Wingfield House where a castle was reputedly destroyed in 1798.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 1 February, 2012
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Loeber, R. and Stouthamer-Loeber, M. 1987 The lost architecture of the Wexford Plantation. In K. Whelan and W. Nolan (eds), Wexford: history and society, 173-200. Dublin. Geography Publications.