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Enclosure

Rathmoylan, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Rathmoylan, 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
Rathmoylan
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.14274, -7.03508
SMR number
WA027-039001-

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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)
  • 1869 · 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Marked only on the 1925 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a mound (diam. c. 20m) just NE of the graveyard (WA027-041002-). Situated in pasture on a plateau around Rathmoylan church (WA027-041001-) overlooking an E-W stream c. 30m to the to the N. Earthworks around the church were described by Reade (1868-9b, 228, 231) and Power (1890-1, 477) as comprising four or five platforms, rectangular or oval in form. Reade depicted this enclosure as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 25m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE). This was described in 1980 as a D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 18m NW-SE; c. 7m NE-SW) backing onto a NW-SE field bank (SMR file). The earthworks were removed c. 1983 when several middens (WA027-039002-) were noted (Decie 1983, 57) together with evidence of metal-working (WA027-039003-).

Decie (1983) Old Waterford Society Survey, Decies, No. 24, 42-57.
Power, Rev. P. (1890-91) The ancient ruined churches of Co. Warterford. JRSAI 20-21, 475-82.
Reade, Rev. G. H. (1868-9b) Proceedings. JRSAI, vol. 10, 209-43.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload/revision: 10 June 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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