Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Ryland Lower, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ryland Lower
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.63082, -6.63936
- SMR number
- WX009-003004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Located on a NE-facing slope of the NW-SE Slaney valley. The church site (WX009-003001-) and the E part of the graveyard are within an oval ecclesiastical enclosure (dims c. 120m NNE-SSW; c. 65m WNW-ESE) which is visible as the cropmark of a ditch or fosse traceable W-NE-SSW only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). The cropmark of what might be a bivallate rath (WX009-003005-) is visible on the same image appended to the fosse of the ecclesiastical enclosure at SE. It consists of the cropmarks of two fosses traceable NE-E-SW around a D-shaped area (int. dims c. 32m NE-SW; c. 10m NW-SE; ext. dims c. 50m NE-SW; c. 18m NW-SE) but the two fosses are not visible inside the line of the ecclesiastical enclosure. The Google image were 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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.