Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Assagart, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Assagart
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX036-047----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A castle is marked on the Down Survey map at Assagart in Kilgarvan parish in NLI (ms 725; microfilm P 7384m N 6380), but there is no further evidence of it. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Robert Haye owned 120 acres at Assagart and 120 acres at Rasillagh (Simington 1953, 88). Its precise 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: 5 November, 2012
Amended: 10 February, 2014
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.