Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
Barrystown, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrystown
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Round Tower
- Latest-edition OS map
- Round Tower (in ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.25252, -6.74936
- SMR number
- WX045-020003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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
Located on a gentle W-facing slope. There is no evidence of bawn walls attached to the tower house (WX045-020001-), and a rectangular area (dims c. 50m N-S; c. 40m E-W) to the NE is defined by the narrow walls (H c. 3m; Wth 0.4m) of a walled garden. A feature described as a round tower in italic lettering on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map is located c. 60m NE of the castle, but it does not survive. It may have been a chimney stack associated with the mining activity of Barrystown (WX045-055----). Archaeological testing (10E0145) in the area of the walled garden produce no related material (Whitty 2013).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Daet of upload: 22 July, 2013
References
Whitty, Y. 2013 Barrystown. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 227, No. 717. Dublin, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Mineunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.