Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Woodtown (forth By., Rosslare Ed), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodtown (forth By., Rosslare Ed)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX043-013----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A house is marked on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map of Forth at Woodtown (16), but a house is not listed at Woodtown on the terrier or commentary of parish map of Rosslare in NLI (ms, 725; microfilm, P 7384; N 6380) where Rowland Scurlocke owned 56 acres in 1640 (Simington 1953, 307). An ancestor of Rowland’s, also called Rowland Scurlocke, had been a physician to Queen Mary Tudor (1553-8) and had been awarded the manors of Rosslare and Ballymore for his service (Hore 1920, 91-3).) The precise location of this house is not known.
See the attached section of the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 January, 2014
References
Hore, P.H. 1920 The barony of Forth, Part 1. The Past 1, 62-106.
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.