Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Tinnick, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tinnick
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ballingowan Mote
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballingowan Mote
- Coordinates
- 52.47985, -6.34666
- SMR number
- WX027-017----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity 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
Marked as a mound and described as Ballingowan Mote on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on the tip of a low E-W spur with a small NE-SW stream c. 70m to the NW. It is c. 470m from the stream’s confluence with the N-S Aughanall River. This may have been the caput of the Ballyvaldon fief of the Roches, held with Doonooney in Bantry by half a knights fee (Colfer 2002, 106). This is a flat topped and scrub-covered earthen mound (dims. of top 5m E-W; 3m N-S; diam. of base 23m E-W; H 4m) defined by a silted fosse (Wth 8m; D 0.3m).
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: 18 July 2012
References
Colfer, B. 2002 Arrogant trespass: Anglo-Norman Wexford 1169-1400. Enniscorthy, Duffry Press
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.