2015:338 - Templeshannon, Enniscorthy, Wexford

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wexford Site name: Templeshannon, Enniscorthy

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 15E0420

Author: Catherine McLoughlin

Site type: Battlefield

Period/Dating:

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. 

Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology, Moonrise Farmhouse, Coolballow, Drinagh, Wexford.