Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Ask, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ask
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.69530, -6.26309
- SMR number
- WX007-068001-
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This site was excavated (E3495) during 2005 as Site 34 of the N11 Gorey to Arklow link. Situated on the lower SW-facing slope of Ask Hill. A subrectangular trough (dims 1.6m x 1.5m; D 0.45m) with stake-holes at the corners was filled with burnt stone material, and there was a small burnt mound (dims 4.1m x 3m; T 0.1m) which seems to have been complete. There was a burnt pit (WX007-068002-) c. 20m to the NNE, and the the excavated features (WX007-071----) are c. 150m to the N. (Stevens 2008)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 March, 2012
References
Stevens, P. 2008 Site 34, Ask. Burnt mound, burnt pit/environs of ringfort. in I. Bennett Excavations 2005. Summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 390, No. 1602. Wordwell. Dublin
Nearby in the register
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.