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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Kilgrovan, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Kilgrovan, 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
Kilgrovan
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.09009, -7.55025
SMR number
WA031-045001-

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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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (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

Located on a slight rise in a level, low-lying tillage landscape with Clonea strand c. 120m to the E. This is an early ecclesiastical site described as an eroded killeen at which five ogham stones had been discovered (Brash 1868-9b, 438). It is depicted only on the 1927 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as an arc of bank (C c. 35m) S-E. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 136)

A geophysical survey conducted by GeoArc confirmed the existence of the ecclesiastical enclosure as a bivallate feature (int. diam. c. 50m; ext. diam. c. 60m), perhaps with an annexe or secondary enclosure attached to the SE, which may be the arc represented on the 1927 map. A number of smaller circular features (diam. c. 10m) within the enclosure could represent hut-sites, or even the church. (Purcell 2003, 6-8)

Purcell, A. (2003) Archaeological assesment. Kilgrovan, Clonea, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. Licence Number 03E1743. Unpublished report. Sheila Lane and Associates.

Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 25th August, 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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