Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Gatehouse
Grange (Shelburne By., Fethard ED), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (Shelburne By., Fethard ED)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.19344, -6.83985
- SMR number
- WX050-011010-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
Situated at the E end of Fethard Castle (WX050-011003-), and pre-dating it. The gatehouse passage (int. Wth 2.95m) is vaulted and the entrance (Wth 2.34m) has hinge-stones for a drawbridge at S but no other elaborate defences. At the N end a passage has been broken into the ground floor of the E wing of the castle at a point where there was a cupboard in the castle’s N wall, but the buildings are not bonded and the gatehouse walls have a slight batter, which the walls of the E wing of the castle abut. The first floor of the gatehouse has window embrasures in the N, E (2) and S walls that were destroyed, blocked, or widened. The remnants of a stairs in the W wall rises northwards to the second floor that has embrasures in the N, E and S walls that were inserted or widened. There is a chimney in the NE angle and a cavity at the S end of the W wall, which may indicated the inclusion of wood or the construction of a hidden safe. From the hall in the E wing of the castle a stairs also rises to the second floor of the gatehouse. The string-course for the wall-walk survives over the second floor, but nothing else of the parapet.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 12 February, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Castle - hall-houseunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.