What is recorded here

Ballingowan Mote is a castle mound on a low Wexford spur, marked on the 1839 and 1924 maps and still standing as a flat-topped earthen hill beside a small stream. It may have been the caput of the Ballyvaldon fief of the Roches, a small lordly claim held with Doonooney in Bantry by half a knights fee. The mound is not grand, but its position at the spur’s tip suggests watchfulness, ownership and the kind of local power that never needed to announce itself.

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

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