Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Craan Lower, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Craan Lower
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.69886, -6.40126
- SMR number
- WX006-097----
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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)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (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
Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope. The cropmark of a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 45m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by rather indistinct fosses or moats and with a large entrance gap (Wth c. 15m) at E is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). It was first reported by Simon Dowling.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 28 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.