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Enclosure

Barnadown Lower, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Barnadown 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
Barnadown Lower
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.63291, -6.31761
SMR number
WX011-083----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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 a slight SW-facing slope, and c. 300m SSW of Barnadown House, an eighteenth century farmhouse. The cropmark of an oval area (dims c. 40m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) defined by interrupted sections of a positive feature indicating a possible bank is visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021). It is also visible on OSI aerial images (2005-12) and Digital Globe (2011-2013), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.

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Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 4 January 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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