Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballylusk (gorey By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylusk (gorey By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilbride Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.72937, -6.37231
- SMR number
- WX002-024001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape, with a N-S stream just to the E. An ecclesiastical site called ‘Kilbride' is marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 13), and it may be early in date. This is an oval area (dims. 80m N-S; 62m E-W) creating an ecclesiastical enclosure defined by a scarp N–SW and by the remains of bank (Wth 5.5m; H 0.4m) with an external fosse (Wth of top 5m; D 0.3m) SW-NW. It is slightly truncated by a WNW-ESE field bank at S. A cairn of stones in the centre marks site of the church but there is no evidence of burial in the graveyard marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map.
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.
Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 27 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.