Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Great Island, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Great Island
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- (Sites of) Castles
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castles (Sites of)
- Coordinates
- 52.28575, -6.99847
- SMR number
- WX039-028003-
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
There is only one reference in 1607-08 to a second castle at Great Island (Hore 1900-11, vol. 3, 229) with the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map providing the only evidence of its location within the ringwork (WX039-028001-) and adjacent to the castle site (WX039-028002-). There are no visible remains of a structure at ground level.
See the attached section from the Down Survey barony map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 28 January, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Leper hospitalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.