Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Springpark, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Springpark
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.39468, -6.83286
- SMR number
- WX030-052002-
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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
The original castle at Old Ross is the motte (WX030-052001-) but by the 16th century a stone castle had been built (Hore 1900-11, vol. 1, 40-1), and according to the Civil Survey (1654-6) the castle and 1000 acres at Old Ross were the inheritance of William Plunkett of Dublin in 1640 (Simington 1953, 207). Robert Leigh writing in 1684 describes the castle as out of repair (Hore 1858-9, 453-4). The site of the castle is placed just S of the motte (WX030-052001-) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and it is presumably from here that the two gargoyles that are now on the premises of the Royal Society of Antiquaries in Merrion Square, Dublin, were recovered (Hore 1900-11, vol. 1,1, n2).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 August, 2012
References
Hore, H. F. 1858-9 A chorographic account of the southern part of the county of Wexford, written Anno 1684: by Robert Leigh, esq., of Rosegarland, in that county. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiequaries of Ireland, vol. 5, 17-21; 451-67.
Hore, P.H. 1900-1911 (Reprint 1979) History of the town and county of Wexford, 6 vols. Dublin. Published by arrangement with W.A. Hennessy Esq.
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.