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Rathmacknee Castle Co. Wexford
A castle probably erected by John Rosseter who was made Seneschal of the
Liberties of Wexford in I451,
and whose family remained Catholics although they recognized Henry VIII in the
16th century. The tower stands in the
south-eastern corner of a well-preserved bawn. The tower is five storeys
high, and has battlements uhich are typical of the I5 th and 16 th centuries
in Ireland. The bawn wall is about 4 feet thick and 24 feet high, with a
round turret at the north-eastern corner and a less prominent square one at
the north-western corner. It is almost complete, and gives a very good idea
of what the tower-houses and bawns of the 15 th and 16th centuries in
Ireland looked like.
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