placenamesEnniscorthy
Inis Córthaidh
Archaeological work revealed an industrial structure within a townland divided between urban and rural census returns.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Inis Córthaidh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Enniscorthy · English · main form
Place & story
A kiln found during restoration
During restoration work at Enniscorthy Castle in 2010, Niall Gregory recorded a seven-metre wall in a service trench beside the castle’s western side. Mortar-bonded shale masonry contained five, possibly six, rectangular openings designed as flues. Glass slag from a functioning flue identified the structure as a glass kiln; the finds suggested a provisional eighteenth-century date. The structure remained in place because the services did not disturb it. [2]
The rural part of the townland
The 1911 census recorded 205 inhabitants in the rural part of Enniscorthy townland, ninety-five male and 110 female, in forty-three occupied houses and two empty houses. This portion covered 769 acres, three roods and thirty perches in Saint Mary’s parish and Enniscorthy Rural electoral division. A footnote places the remainder in Enniscorthy Urban District. The urban district’s population of 5,495 covered portions of three townlands, rather than Enniscorthy townland alone. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Civil parish
- Saint Mary's Enniscorthy
- Coordinates
- 52.50605, -6.57583
- Mapped area
- 3.89 km²
- Logainm ID
- 52470 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Enniscorthy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- 2011:623 Enniscorthy Castle, Castle Hill: restoration works in 2010, licence E4118 · Niall Gregory, Excavations.ie
- Census of Ireland 1911: County Wexford, Table VII, printed page 10 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office, London; printed by The Athlone Printing Works Company Ltd, 1912
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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