Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballyleigh, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyleigh
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.44656, -6.88164
- SMR number
- WX023-003----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked faintly as a rectangular feature (dims. c. 20m E-W; c. 10m N-S) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and described as the site of a castle on both the 1839 and 1924 eds. According to the Civil Survey (1654-56) Morgan Cavanagh, an Irish papist, owned 500 acres in Ballileigh in 1641, but there is no mention of a castle (Simington 1953, 214). It is situated on a fairly level, landscape. There are no visible remains at ground level in pasture.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 25 June, 2012
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosure1 mi
- Standing stone1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.