Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ardenagh Great, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardenagh Great
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.29637, -6.68592
- SMR number
- WX041-020----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Marked fainly as a rectangular structure (dims c. 5m x c. 5m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and described as the site of a castle on it and the 1925 ed. References to a castle at Ardenagh date only from the Civil Survey (1654-6) when a small castle in repair and 300 acres were recorded as the property of William or Alison Hore in 1640, and William also owned Traceystown castle (WX041-002----) and 300 acres there (Simington 1953, 84). It is situated on a gentle E-facing slope, but there are no visible remains of a structure at ground level on the N side of a farm complex.
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: 19 March, 2013
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.