The County of Wexford being tlie first place in Ireland in which the Anglo -Norman Invaders landed and made a settlement, is it not extraordinary that we have not a connected History, giving some accurate account of their proceedings in this County ? To the Student of Local History all that remain are a few scattered fragments here and there-most of them traditionary-nothing reliable-of an event that was of such vital importance to this country, involving as it did, a total change in its laws, manners, and customs, and subjecting it to the conqueror for a period extending over seven centuries. The only vestige that now remains in this County of the Strongbownian invaders are their grand old Forts or Castles. There is not even a gravestone left to mark the last resting place of any one member of all the great Families that once inhabited those Castles, with one single exception, that of the Whittys, of Ballyteigue, whose mural monument stands in the old ruined Church of Kilmore. After duly considering this matter, and endeavouring to find out some cause to account for it, we have arrived at the conclusion that their tombs must have been destroyed along with their Places of Worship, by the soldiers of the ruthless Cromwell; but we have no reliable information on the subject, and only offer this as our solution of an extraordinary fact.
Chronicles of the County Wexford