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House - early medieval

Moneylawn Lower, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - early medieval, Moneylawn Lower, 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
Moneylawn Lower
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.64916, -6.32062
SMR number
WX011-060002-

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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)
  • 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

Excavated (E3478) during 2005 by L. Mckinstry as part of Site 13 at Moneylawn Lower, which was one of the excavations undertaken in advance of the construction of the N11 Arklow-Gorey link-road. Structure 1 is situated immediately outside the outer enclosure of concentric enclosure (WX011-060001-) at S. It is a concentration (dims. c. 10m x c. 9m) of post-holes, stake-holes, pits and hearths Two lines of post-holes (L c. 1.9m) at NE may indicate an entrance (Wth c. 2.2m) with a porch. (Mckinstry 2008, 404; 2008a, 7-8)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 12 April, 2012

References

Mckinstry, L. 2008 Moneylawn Lower. Prehistoric and early medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 404-06, No. 1652. Dublin. Wordwell.

Mckinstry, L. 2008a N11 Gorey to Arklow link: Archaeological Resolution. Preliminary report E3478. A003/015. Site 13 Moneylawn Lower, Co. Wexford. Unpublished report: V. J. Keeley Ltd.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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