Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Goreyhill, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Goreyhill
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67171, -6.31016
- SMR number
- WX006-099----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on the SE-facing slope of Gorey Hill. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 44m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by a slight fosse is visible only on Apple Maps (c. 2018). Enclosure (WX006-098----) is c. 110m to the SW, and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 4 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.