Castles and forts in County Wexford
The Discover Alone map has 276 castles and forts in County Wexford, Ireland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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TumulusCastle — motteOldhall is a flat-topped earthen mound in County Wexford, probably the first Brown family castle before later stone…
TowerBawnTower, Lady's Island is a bawn at the northern apex of a vanished triangular island in Lady’s Island Lough, County…
Slade CastleHouse — fortified houseSlade Castle joins a separate tower house and fortified house through a later angle structure, creating one strange…
Slade CastleCastle — tower houseSlade Castle stands complete on the south harbour edge, its five-storey tower and adjacent fortified house touching…
(Sites of) CastlesCastle — unclassifiedNo visible wall or tower remains on Great Island, yet a second castle is recorded there in 1607-08 beside the known…
Site of Warrens CastleCastle — unclassifiedWarrens Castle in Ballywilliam may never have existed, because no Warren owned land there when surveyed, yet maps drew…
(site of) Polehore CastleCastle — unclassifiedFive generations of Hore blood flowed through Polehore before insurgents fired the castle in 1798. Christopher Hore…
Site of Morris CastleCastle — unclassifiedOne wall of Morris Castle stood on the steep Wexford slope until men quarried it away in 1936. They took the castle's…
(Site of) Doonoonen CastleCastle — motteDoonooney Castle stood as a flat-topped motte on a gentle western slope in County Wexford, held by Adam de la Roche…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedOld Ross castle grew from a ancient motte into a stone stronghold owning a thousand acres for William Plunkett of…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedRathgaroge is a phantom castle in County Wexford, marked only in gothic ink on an 1839 map while the ground beneath…
site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedOldcourt in County Wexford held a rectangular castle belonging to David Sutton, who lost thirty-nine people and…
(Site of) CastleCastle — unclassifiedWalter Roche of Newcastle owned a handsome castle in indifferent repair in 1654, anchoring a large local estate and the…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedJasper Prendergast lost Great Gortins in 1641 after holding twelve dependent households and six hundred acres across…
site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedFinshoge castle is a rath hidden in a steep Wexford valley, remembered only through a boundary remark and a local…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedDrinagh and Artramon anchored the Roche family in Wexford from the 13th century, with John Roche governing the county…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCullentra was probably a seventeenth-century dwelling rather than a tower house, granted to Philip Hore in 1666 after…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastlepaliser marks the lost castle of Ballyumphant, held by the Codd family from the sixteenth century and stripped of…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCarrigmannon Castle vanished into Wexford woodland before Robert Devereux inherited it, leaving only a ruined stone…
site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle Bridgetown South stood on a low plain beside the Bridgetown river, owned by William Browne of Mulrankin and…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedBattlestown Castle stood on an east-facing slope in County Wexford until Royalist forces burned it in 1642, erasing the…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedBallyshelin castle belonged to Philip Hore in 1654, a compact slate house commanding three hundred and sixty acres at…
site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedBallymaclare is a ghost castle, visible only on an 1839 map and absent from every historical record. The valley between…
(Site of) CastleCastle — unclassifiedAdam Keating held half a knight’s fee at Ballybrennan from William de Valence in 1247, anchoring his family there until…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedArdenagh Great castle vanished before most maps drew it, leaving only a five-metre ghost rectangle on paper and a empty…
Site of Arnestown CastleCastle — unclassifiedArnestown Castle vanished beneath a cereal crop on an east-facing slope, leaving only gothic lettering on old maps and…
Ryland Castle (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedQuarrying stripped its stones around 1900 and later removal erased the last wall, leaving only a lowered ground where…
Ruin of a small castleRuinsMnemo and I walked through a broken gate into a small castle ruin in County Wexford. The roof had vanished, the floors…
Rathumney Castle (in ruins)Castle — hall-houseRathumney Castle stands as a ruined hall-house on a gentle Wexford slope, its oblong frame holding a central hall…
Passage TowerCastle — tower housePassage Tower stands on a rock outcrop above the River Slaney, probably built in the 15th century to watch the narrow…
Old Ross MoteCastle — motte and baileyOld Ross Mote is a castle mound in County Wexford, first mentioned in 1233 and repaired in 1281. Its flat-topped earth…
Kilhile Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseKilhile Castle stands as a ruined tower house on a Wexford slope, holding chambers dark enough to suggest oubliettes…
IndicatedCastle — ringworkIndicated, Templetown is a circular grass-covered ringwork at the head of a narrow Wexford valley, where Templar and…
IndicatedCastle — motteIndicated, Salville OR Motabeg is a castle motte in County Wexford, Ireland. The flat-topped mound stands nine metres…
IndicatedCastle — motte and baileyIndicated, Newcastle (shelmaliere West By.) is a flat-topped earthen motte and crescent-shaped bailey in County…
IndicatedCastle — unclassifiedIndicated, Newbay is an unclassified castle in County Wexford, Ireland, first named in 1540 as a castle or…
IndicatedBawnMountgarrett bawn stretched thirty-five metres east-west and sixty metres north-south beside a tower house that still…
IndicatedCastle — motte and baileyIndicated, Middletown (ballaghkeen By., Ardamine Ed) is a motte and bailey castle on Wexford sand-dunes, its…
IndicatedCastle — motteIndicated, Inch is a flat-topped motte castle in County Wexford, Ireland. It stands 4m high with a 28m base, surrounded…
IndicatedCastle — motteKilcowan is a flat-topped earthen motte in County Wexford, Ireland, where half a knight’s fee sustained a small holding…
IndicatedCastle — ringworkGreat Island rose from the River Barrow as a fortified manor for Hervey de Montmorency, who received it from Dermot Mac…
IndicatedCastle — tower houseIndicated, Cullenstown (bargy By.) is a surviving Cullen tower house where John Cullen held eighty acres in 1634 and…
IndicatedBawnIndicated, Clonmines is a rectangular bawn in County Wexford, Ireland, where an Augustinian friar church still stands…
IndicatedCastle — unclassifiedCastlebridge is a castle only in name, but the name itself is a claim: somebody lived there, built there, and was…
IndicatedCastle — ringworkBallyorley Upper is a circular ringwork castle on a NE-facing slope in County Wexford, Ireland. Its earthen bank stands…
Houseland Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseHouseland Castle stood as a four-storey tower with a vaulted ground floor and newel stairs on a slight south-facing…
Fethard CastleCastle — hall-houseFethard Castle stands as a complex L-shaped hall-house where a circular tower anchors the southwest angle, likely built…
Ferrycarrig Tower HouseArchaeological placeFerrycarrig Tower House stands in County Wexford, a ruined marker of martial pride rather than gentle domesticity. Its…
Ferns Castle (in ruins)Castle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleFerns Castle rose on a low Wexford hill in 1224 when William Marshall the younger imposed Anglo-Norman stone upon an…
Embanked enclosureCastle — ringworkToberfinnick is a ringwork castle on a narrow promontory where the River Sow bends back on itself, leaving steep…
Embanked enclosureCastle — motteKillegney is a flat-topped motte in County Wexford, likely built by a Prendergast knight after Strongbow granted Duffry…
Embanked enclosureCastle — motte and baileyMaurice de London held Duncormick and Rosegarland with three and a quarter knights in 1247, suggesting the earthen…
Embanked enclosureCastle — motteCurralane is a possible motte castle on a gravel ridge in County Wexford, reduced by quarrying and field banks but…
Embanked enclosureCastle — motteCastlesow is a small embanked enclosure on a steep promontory where the River Sow bends past within twenty metres. Its…
Embanked enclosureCastle — motteBarnaree is a flat-topped earthen castle mound on a low ridge in County Wexford, still visible beside Kiltrisk. Its…
Embanked enclosureCastle — motteBallymoty More is a castle motte: a flat-topped earthen mound, seven metres high, with an oval summit and a broad fosse…
Dunbrody CastleCastleDunbrody Castle stands in County Wexford, a stone anchor in the southeast landscape. Its walls have watched the coast…
Daphney CastleCastle — unclassifiedDaphney Castle is a mistaken name for ordinary ruins on a steep Wexford slope, misread as medieval because brick…
Danes Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseDanescastle rises as a five-storey rectangular tower in County Wexford, surviving to its wall-walk with good quoins and…
Coolhull CastleHouse — fortified houseCoolhull Castle stands as a fortified house in County Wexford, probably built in the second half of the 16th century.…