2015:338 - ENNISCORTHY: Templeshannon, Wexford
County: Wexford
Site name: ENNISCORTHY: Templeshannon
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 15E0420
Author: Catherine McLoughlin, Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology
Author/Organisation Address: Moonrise Farmhouse, Coolballow, Drinagh, Wexford
Site type: Battlefield
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 697932m, N 640319m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.505456, -6.557442
Testing and metal-detection was undertaken at St Senan’s Primary School in Templeshannon in response to planning conditions. No features of archaeological significance were uncovered however some 18th/19th-centuy pottery sherds were uncovered as well as some metal objects. The site is located on the slopes of Vingear Hill, a 1798 battlefield site.