Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Clonmines, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonmines
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle
- Coordinates
- 52.26061, -6.76486
- SMR number
- WX045-012005-
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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
Situated on the S side of the group of monuments at Clonmines, and c. 60m from the W bank of the N-S Owenduff/Corrock river. It is also on W side of a rectangular walled enclosure (dims. 50m N-S; 35-45m E-W) perhaps a walled garden or bawn. The castle was occupied by the Sutton family down to 1849 (Hore 1901-11, vol. 2, 215-16) and it is still occupied as part of a modern farmhouse. It is a rectangular tower (ext. dims c. 6.5m E-W; 6.35m N-S) with a base-batter surviving to the second floor (H 8m) but altered as a modern dwelling. The ground floor has an arched embrasure in the N, E and S walls, but there is no barrel-vault.
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: 22 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Gatehouseunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian friarsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.