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What is recorded here

Curralane is a possible motte castle on a gravel ridge in County Wexford, reduced by quarrying and field banks but still marking a small rectangular mound above the low land. It may have given a family, soldier or local leader a raised place to see the stream and fields below. The lost top may have held a wooden hall, a watchfire or only a menage for horses and people during rain. What remains is enough to imagine the shape of life there: a narrow ridge, a made mound, and a view across wet ground.

Situated on the summit of a gravel ridge in a low-lying area with a N-S stream c. 250m to the W. It has been quarried on the NW side. The summit has a rectangular appearance (dims. 26m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE; H 3–5m) with a bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H 2m) at its edge N-E. At the base of the mound is a fosse (Wth c. 1m) and outer bank (Wth 3m; int. H up to 1.6m; ext. H 0.5m) SSW-W but the bank is incorporated into a field bank NE-SE and removed by a NE-SW field bank SE-SSW, while the quarry has removed it elswhere. It may be a motte. 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: 10 April, 2012

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