Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 16th/17th century
Ballyhack, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhack
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX044-017----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Ballyhack was within the original grant to Dunbrody Abbey (WX039-030001-), and at the Suppression in 1541 it is described as having nine tenements occupied by nine fishermen (Hore 1900-11, vol. 3, 126-7). Robert Leigh writing in 1684 describes a few cabins at Ballyhack (Hore 1858-9, 458). The location of these houses cannot be precisely identified but they were probably between the castle (WX044-0009001-) and the harbour. Archaeological monitoring (03E1630) immediately outside the doorway of the castle identified the foundations of a cottage and its drains that could be dated to the 17th or 18th century through finds of Staffordshire slipware, clay-pipe fragments and glass (Reid 2006).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 June, 2013
References
Hore, H. F. 1858-9 A chorographic account of the southern part of the county of Wexford, written Anno 1684: by Robert Leigh, esq., of Rosegarland, in that county. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiequaries of Ireland, vol. 5, 17-21; 451-67.
Reid, M. 2006 Ballyhack. Tower house. In I. Bennett (Ed.) excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 530, No. 2006. Dublin. Wordwell.