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What is recorded here

Finshoge castle is a rath hidden in a steep Wexford valley, remembered only through a boundary remark and a local pointer. That absence is not emptiness; it is a jar sealed without a label. Come beside the stream, sit near the ridge, and ask what the castle kept before it became a castle. The valley may return the name, not the shape.

Located in the bottom of a steep-sided S-N valley and towards its head, with a stream c. 30m to the W. The 'butt of an old castle' at Finsoke is mentioned in describing the boundary of Old Ross parish in the Civil Survey (1654-6) (Simington 1953, 205) and the rath (WX034-008002-) was pointed out to John O’Donovan c. 1840 as the site of Finshoge castle (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 259). There is no evidence of a masonry structure, but the rath may be the castle. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 September, 2012

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