Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballindoney, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballindoney
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.47022, -6.81076
- SMR number
- WX024-018----
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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
Depicted faintly as a rectangular structure (dims. c. 20m NE-SW; c. 10m NW-SE) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6 inch map and described as 'Site of Castle' on both the 1839 and 1925 eds. According to the Civil Survey (1654-56) five hundred acres at Ballendone were owned by Dermot McDowling Cavanagh, an Irish papist, in 1641, but there is no record of a castle (Simington 1953, 209). It is located on fairly level land towards the bottom of a SE-facing slope of White Mountain, and at the head of a small NW-SE valley. Nothing is visible at ground level in pasture. Ringfort (WX024-017----) is c. 120m to the NW.
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 - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.