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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Park (Upperthird By.), County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Park, County Waterford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Park (Upperthird By.)
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.31779, -7.54955
SMR number
WA002-040003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated towards the bottom of a gentle S-facing slope with a WNW-ESE stream to the S, on the early ecclesiastical site known as 'Cíll Eoghan' (Power 1952, 416). The ecclesiastical enclosure is a subcircular grass-covered area (ext. dims. c. 77m N-S; 53m E-W) bisected E-W by the Rathgormuck-Clonmel road (R678). N of the road the area is defined by a widely spread bank (Wth 8m; H 0.3-0.5m); S of the road the bank is reduced to a scarp at E and an irregular scarp at W. Centrally located in the S half is an overgrown cairn (WA002-040007-), which may contain the remains of the church (WA002-040001-). On the W side of the cairn is a conglomerate double bullaun stone (WA002-040005-). The possible megalithic structures (WA002-040006-) and (WA002-040008-) were within the enclosure (Lyons 1948, 178), but these features do not survive, and the classification is unlikely. There is no evidence of a graveyard (WA002-040002-), but the site of Tobar Eóin Well (WA002-040004-) is just outside the enclosure at SW.

Power, P. (1952) The placenames of the Decies. (second ed.) Cork University Press.

Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 27th August, 2010.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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