Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Salville Or Motabeg, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Salville Or Motabeg
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tumulus
- Coordinates
- 52.48225, -6.55941
- SMR number
- WX026-015----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the S edge of a plateau, and at the crest of the S-facing slope of a ravine with the NE-SW stream c. 80m to the S. The motte is probably the caput of the Prendergast fief of Schyrmal held by two and half knights fees (Colfer 2002, 106). This is a flat-topped tree and scrub-covered mound (diam. of top 26m; diam. of base c. 45m; H 9m) defined by fosse (Wth 9m; D 2.5-3m). It is surrounded by houses SE-SW and by a road SW-N. Archaeological testing (98E0326) c. 75m to the SW produced no related material (Bennett 2000) and testing (03E0943) immediately to the SW had the same result (McLoughlin 2006).
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: 12 July 2012
References
Bennett, I. 2000 Salville. Adjacent to motte and boulder burial. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavatinos 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 217, No. 676. Bray, Wordwell
Colfer, B. 2002 Arrogant trespass: Anglo-Norman Wexford 1169-1400. Enniscorthy, Duffry Press
McLoughlin, C. 2006 Salville/Motabeg. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 537, No. 2036. Bray, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - formal gardenunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.