Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Allenstown Little,allenstown Big, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Allenstown Little,allenstown Big
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX048-052----
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The National Monuments Service's description
John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 identified the house (WX048-051----) marked on the Down Survey barony map (1656-8) at Allenstown (1) in St. Iberius' parish as a castle (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 303) and he was followed by Hore (1949, 48), but there is no evidence that the structure was a castle. Nicholas Turner owned 144 acres at Allenstown in 1640 (Simington 1953, 305). The Down survey parish map of St. Iberius’ parish (1656-8) in NLI (ms, 725; microfilm P7384; N6380) does show four small cottages in a cluster at Allenstown. For the Down Survey barony map see this web-page accessed on 2 January, 2014: http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Forth&c=Wexford. The precise location of this house is not known.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 January, 2013
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.