Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Rathgaroge, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathgaroge
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.42397, -6.87125
- SMR number
- WX030-013001-
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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
A castle is marked in Ballyanne parish on a Down Survey map (1655-6) and while 110 acres at Rathgaroge was owned in 1640 by Nicholas Dormer, an Irish papist of Stokestown (WX034-015----), there is no record of a castle or fort at Rathgaroge (Simington 1953, 204). A faintly marked enclosure (WX030-013002-) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map is described in gothic lettering as the ‘Site of Fort Garret and Castle’. Located on a slight W-facing slope, it is not known locally and is not visible at ground level in pasture.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 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
- Fortificationunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.