Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Courtlands East,courtlands West, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Courtlands East,courtlands West
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX047-079----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Mayglass was a manor of the Bishop of Ferns (Colfer 2002, 95). In 1569 an inquiry revealed that when Laurence Neville, Dean of Ferns, was installed as Bishop in 1479 he compensated his rival, Sir Henry Roche, with the Deanery of Ferns and the manor and court (or castle) at Mayglass (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 236; 1925, 31). A castle and three small houses are marked on the Down Survey parish map (1656-8) of Mayglass in a large plot of 314 acres that was owned by Richard Wadding. The terrier or commentary says that at Mayglass there are the ruins of an old castle and six cabins. In a description of Forth barony written c. 1680 by Synnott it is recorded that there had been an ancient house of the Dean of Ferns at Mayglass (Hore 1862, 67; 1921, 58). The location of this castle is not precisely known, but from the Down Survey map it would be located in Courtlands East or Courtlands West, in the vicinity of the Roman Catholic church and the school. For the Down Survey parish map see this web-page accessed on 27 September, 2013. http://downsurvey.tcd.
See the attached view from the Down Survey parish map (N at bottom) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 October, 2013
References
Hore, P. H. 1925 The barony of Forth. Part 3. The Past, vol. 3, 9-40.
Hore, H. F. 1862 An account of the barony of Forth, in the county of Wexford, writtten at the close of the seventeenth century. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 7, 53-84.
Colfer, B. 2002 Arrogant trespass: Anglo-Norman Wexford 1169-1400. Enniscorthy, Duffry Press