Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Arnestown (bantry By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Arnestown (bantry By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Arnestown Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Arnestown Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.38308, -6.91210
- SMR number
- WX029-025----
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Described in gothic lettering as the site of Arnestown Castle on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and located towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. The castle of Arnestown is mentioned in the description of the boundary between the parishes of Old Ross and New Ross in the Civil Survey (1654-6) (Simington 1953, 205, 250), 30 acres at Arnestown was owned in 1641 by Nicholas Dormer, an Irish papist (ibid. 251). There are no visible remains of a structure at ground level in a cereal crop.
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: 1 August, 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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.