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Field system

Moneycross Upper, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Moneycross Upper, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Moneycross Upper
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.64131, -6.33654
SMR number
WX011-054002-

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David 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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Excavated (E3471) during 2005 by H. Schweitzer as a part of Site 6 at Moneycross Upper, which was one of the excavations undertaken in advance of the construction of the N11 Arklow-Gorey link-road. Situated in a low-lying landscape on a slight S-facing slope. A subrectangular enclosure (max. dims c. 17m E-W; c. 17m N-S) that is open to the E is defined by a gully (Wth c. 0.8m; D c. 0.25m) that produced sherds of medieval pottery. N and S of this enclosure similar E-W gullies converge towards the medieval house (WX011-054001-) at E but a N-S gully c. 10m W of the house separates the house from the fields. A charred oat grain from a secondary fill produced a calibrated C14 date of AD 1405-55 (Eogan and Kelly 2016, 221). (Schweitzer 2008; 2009)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 1 February, 2017

References

Schweitzer. H. 2009 A medieval farmstead at Moneycross Upper, Co. Wexford. In C. Corlett and M. Potterton (eds.), Rural settlement in medieval Ireland in the light of recent archaeological excavations, 15. Dublin. Wordwell.

Schweitzer, H. 2008 N11 Gorey to Arklow link: Archaeological ressolution. Preliminary report. E3471. Site 6, Moneycross Upper, Co. Wexford. Unpublished report. V.J. Keeley Ltd.

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