Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Latimerstown, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Latimerstown
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.30476, -6.47914
- SMR number
- WX042-011----
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 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
There are no known references to a castle at Latimerstown. According to the Civil Survey 128 acres here were owned by Robert Roche, an Irish papist, in 1641 (Simington 1953, 299). A castle is not marked on the Down Survey map (1655-8) (Hore 1925, 36). The location is described as 'site of Castle' only on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6 inch map. It is situated in a coniferous forest on a level, low-lying landscape with a small NW-SE stream c. 30m to the SW. It is known locally that old flax retting ponds were in the locality and two NW-SE earthen banks remain from them. There are no visible remains of an antiquity visible at ground level.
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 May, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.