Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Curralane, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curralane
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.63498, -6.54385
- SMR number
- WX010-012----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the summit of a gravel ridge in a low-lying area with a N-S stream c. 250m to the W. It has been quarried on the NW side. The summit has a rectangular appearance (dims. 26m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE; H 3–5m) with a bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H 2m) at its edge N-E. At the base of the mound is a fosse (Wth c. 1m) and outer bank (Wth 3m; int. H up to 1.6m; ext. H 0.5m) SSW-W but the bank is incorporated into a field bank NE-SE and removed by a NE-SW field bank SE-SSW, while the quarry has removed it elswhere. It may be a motte.
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: 10 April, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.