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----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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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.