Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballywilliam (bantry By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballywilliam (bantry By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Warrens Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Warrens Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.45539, -6.86417
- SMR number
- WX024-036----
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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. 15m N-S; c. 8m E-W) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and described as the site of 'Warren's Castle' both the 1839 and 1925 eds. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) no land in Ballywilliam was owned by anybody called Warren, and it has no record of a castle (Simington 1953, 209). It is situated on a SW-facing slope in the foothills of White Mountain. The site is occupied by a sycamore tree close to a farmhouse but there are no visible remains of a structure at ground level.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.