Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Rathmacknee Great, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmacknee Great
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.26935, -6.49051
- SMR number
- WX042-029007-
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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
Rathmacknee tower house (WX042-029001-) is at the SE angle of the bawn (WX042-029005-) whose walls survive complete with a wall walk (H 7.3m), except on the S where a house with walls 1.5m thick at one time abutted the tower house (Wexford People 15-07-1911). A pointed gateway (Wth 1.9m; H 2.55m) protected by machicolation is on the E wall of the bawn, immediately N of the tower house and covered by the double-splayed loop that is the only feature in the ground floor chamber of the tower house.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 28 May, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.