School: Baldwinstown
- Location:
- Baldwinstown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Ristéard Mac Plib
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- Kilcavan castle is situated about five or six miles from here. It was by a Fitzhenry, one of four brothers who fought at the battle of Lambstown, it was built.
However Kilcavan castle was built in the year 1548. The walls are standing yet and a very comfortable dwelling house is alongside it.
The present owner of this place is Mr. Murphy. It is in the townland of Kilcavan, in the parish of Bannow and the Barony of Bargy which is in the County of Wexford.
The Cromwellian troops had a detachment in Kilcavan and eleven of them were killed in one of Richard Stafford's houses.
Hilltown castle is about four miles from here and it was also built by the Fitzhenrys, a different branch of the family from those that built Kilcavan Castle as there were several branches of the Fitzhenrys in this(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Berna Parle
- Gender
- Female
