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Oldcourt in County Wexford held a rectangular castle belonging to David Sutton, who lost thirty-nine people and considerable property during the upheavals of the 1650s. The building has vanished except for a faint grass-covered hollow on a south-facing shelf, yet the loss remains sharp enough to imagine in thirty-nine displaced lives.

David Sutton of Oldcourt, probably related to the Suttons of Ballykeeroge (WX039-024001-), was extorted by Art Boy MacArt Kavanagh in 1580 (Hore 1900-1910, vol. 1, 69-70). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) David Sutton owned 120 acres and the castle at Oldcourt (Simington 1953, 184), and 39 people and considerable property is associated with him in the Transplantation documents from the same period (Hore 1900-10, vol. 1, 503). The dwelling marked on the Down Survey map (1655-6) at Oldcourt is probably this castle. The castle is marked faintly as a rectangular structure (dims. c. 10m NW-SE; c. 5m NE-SW) described as 'site of Castle' on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as the site of a castle on the 1924 ed. It is situated on a shelf on a S-facing slope in a field called the lawn where a slight grass-covered oval hollow (dims. 23m E-W; 16m N-S) is visible. Archaeological testing (03E0479) c. 60m to the NE produced no related material McLoughlin (2006). See the attached section from the Down Survey barony map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 13 September, 2012

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