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Castle - tower house

Clonmines, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - tower house, Clonmines, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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 Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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