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Moated site

Templeshelin, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Templeshelin, 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
Templeshelin
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.40128, -6.76366
SMR number
WX030-042----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Marked as a small square wooded enclosure on the 1839 (dims. c. 40m x c. 30m) and 1925 (dims. c. 30m x c. 25m) eds of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated in the bottom of a shallow NNW-SSE valley with a stream c. 20m to the E. This is a square area (dims. 31m N-S; 31m E-W) in a small coniferous wood defined by earthen banks (Wth 5-7m; int. H c. 1-1.5m; ext. H 1.8-2m normally but 3.4m over a stream at S) at the N, S and W sides, and flat bottomed external moats (Wth of top 5.5-6.5m; ext. D 1.2-2m) on each side. The bank is augmented by spoil from the digging of an inner drain on all sides except the E where the bank was probably removed, and the stream was diverted into the moat at S and now runs off to the S from the SW angle.

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: 16 August, 2012

Nearby in the register

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

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