Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Growtown Upper, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Growtown Upper
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX036-045001-
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) a ‘faire castle in good repair’ together with 540 acres at Growtown in Custuffe (Coolstuff) parish were owned by Marcus Cheevers in 1641 (Simington 1953, 100). Its location is not known.
See the attached section from the Down Survey (1656-8) parish map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 8 November, 2012
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.