At Battlestown in County Wexford, the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1839 records a circular enclosure, roughly thirty to thirty-five metres in diameter, on a gentle slope facing south-east. Within that ring, the cartographers noted the site of a church called Templeboy. Today, the area is covered in grass and scrub, and there is nothing visible at ground level, no earthwork, no stonework, no trace of burial or boundary.

The church name offers a small clue to what once mattered here. "Teampall" is the Irish word for church, and Templeboy placenames occur in several parts of Ireland, often associated with early ecclesiastical foundations. The enclosure itself, circular and modest in scale, is the kind of feature that frequently surrounds early medieval church sites in Ireland, a low bank or ditch marking the consecrated ground of a small religious community. That the 1839 surveyors could still detect it, however faintly, suggests it had not yet been entirely swallowed by agriculture or time. At some point between then and now, it was. Roughly seven hundred metres to the east lies the site of Battlestown Castle, a reminder that this quiet corner of Wexford was once a more densely layered landscape than the fields suggest.