Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Abbeydown, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeydown
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70015, -6.63250
- SMR number
- WX004-001001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 in the deep valley of the N-S Derry River, with the stream c. 30m to the W and c. 30m S of where a smaller E-W stream joins the river. It is not marked on the OS 6-inch map, and it is not visible at ground level in pasture, but a subcircular enclosure (dims. c. 50m x c. 50m) is visible as a cropmark on an OSI series of aerial photographs (2000). It is attached to the N side of the feature that Kinahan (1879-88, 158) described as Garry Hasten 'Moat' (WX004-001----) but is a rath. The abbey site (WX004-002----) is c. 50m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 29 February, 2012
References
Kinahan, G.H. 1879-88 On sepulchral and other prehistoric relics. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy C16, 152-63.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.