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Gateway

Newtown (Bargy By., Killag ED),Richfield, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Gateway, Newtown, Richfield, 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
Newtown (Bargy By., Killag ED),Richfield
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not inidcated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.21306, -6.59660
SMR number
WX046-101----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a level landscape and at the E end of the roadway (WX046-102----) from Ballymagir castle (WX046-052001-). It is also on the original W shore of the Broad Water inlet of Ballyteige Lough, which was called Mablen Haven in the Civil Survey (1654-6) (Simington 1953, 149). Archaeological monitoring (05E1096) of a windfarm project identified the gateway in an overgrown area. It has two rectangular masonry piers (dims 0.8m x 0.8m; H 2.5m plus) placed 3m apart, each pier having worked granite corner stones, and they may have supported finials in a Renaissance style. They are bonded with sandy lime mortar that includes shell fragments (Hurley 2006, 19). It is postulated that there may have been a quay here from the middle ages (Hurley 2009). However, there is no mention of one in the Civil Survey, although FitzNicholls Dock, which would be in Ballyharty on the E side of the Broad Water inlet is recorded (Simington 1953, 149). The road and gateway may be late 17th or 18th century in date. (Hurley 2016)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 20 August, 2103

References

Hurley, M. 2009 Richfield. Monitoring. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 559-60, No. 2127, Dublin. Wordwell.

Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.

Hurley, M. 2016 ‘A lost gateway at Richfield (Ballymagir castle), Co. Wexford.' in I. Doyle and B. Browne (eds) Medieval Wexford: Essays in memory of Billy Colfer, 509-13. Dublin, Four Courts Press

Nearby in the register

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

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