Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Finshoge, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Finshoge
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- site of Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.37074, -6.90672
- SMR number
- WX034-008001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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
Located in the bottom of a steep-sided S-N valley and towards its head, with a stream c. 30m to the W. The 'butt of an old castle' at Finsoke is mentioned in describing the boundary of Old Ross parish in the Civil Survey (1654-6) (Simington 1953, 205) and the rath (WX034-008002-) was pointed out to John O’Donovan c. 1840 as the site of Finshoge castle (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 259). There is no evidence of a masonry structure, but the rath may be the castle.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 September, 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.