Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Ballyvoodock, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvoodock
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX027-049----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The manor of Sampson was granted to Capt. George Trevelyan, a nephew of Lord Deputy Chichester, in 1613, and Chichester inherited it on Trevelyan’s death in 1620, by which time it was leased to Lord Annesley. A small castle of two and a half storeys and a court or bawn had been built in Ballyvoodock by 1621 (Loeber and Stouthamer-Loeber 1987, 189). In the Civil Survey (1654-6) Lord Mountnorris owned a ruined castle in Ballyvoodock and had 1651 acres in Ballyvaldon parish in 1641 (Simington 1953, 47, 78). The land was in the townlands of Ballyconnigar, Knocknasilloge, Ballyvaldon, Kilnew, Ballintgowan, Garrymoyle, Kilmacot, Ballyvoddon, Ballyvoodock, Ballintubbrid and Ballynadrishoge. The precise location of the house is not known.
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: 17 July 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.