TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Castle - motte

Tinnick, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - motte, Tinnick, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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 Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Castle - motte in Wexford All County Wexford records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map