Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Castleannesley, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleannesley
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle Anneslwy (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle Annesley (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.51249, -6.25500
- SMR number
- WX022-019001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
By 1621 Sir Francis Annesley had built a house (WX022-019----) with a court or bawn (Loeber and Stouthamer-Loeber 1987, 189-90). Only one D-shaped mural tower (int. dims. 2.9m N-S; 1.4m E-W) from the E side of the bawn survives (H 3.5) with walls of roughly coursed stone (T 1m). The tower is now open-backed, but it may have had an entrance (Wth 1.5m) at W to the ground floor that has five lights (Wth 7-11cm; H 32cm). There was at least one light on the first floor.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 18 June, 2012
References
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.
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.