Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Tullycanna, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullycanna
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.27390, -6.68033
- SMR number
- WX041-034----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked faintly as a rectangular feature (dims c. 30m ENE-WSW; c. 25m NNW-SSE) and described as the site of a castle in gothic lettering on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. References date from 1600 when land at Tullycanna was held by the Neville family (Jeffrey 1979, 89 90), and Walter Neville owned the castle and 180 acres at Tullycanna in 1640 (Simington 1953, 142). It is situated on the E side of the valley of a N-S stream, which is c. 120m to the W. It is visible as a rectangular cropmark enclosure (int. dim. c. 50m) defined by two banks and fosses on aerial photographs (MM (8) 19-23; (48) 28-31), but it is not visible at ground level in a cereal crop. Archaeological testing (20E0098) by D. Shine c. 100m to the NNE failed to produce any related material (Shine 2020 excavations.ie 2020:029).
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: 21 March, 2013
Amended: 2 May, 2014, 10 November 2020
References
Shine, D. 2020 Licensed Archaeological Testing Report, Tullycanna, Co. Wexford. Licence: 20E0098. Unpublished report, CRDS.
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Jeffrey, W.H. 1979 The castles of County Wexford. Typescript prepared by the Old Wexford Society, Ed. E. Culleton.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.