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Enclosure

Ferns Demesne, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ferns Demesne, 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
Ferns Demesne
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.58929, -6.49075
SMR number
WX015-003032-

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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)
  • 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

Located on a gentle E and NE-facing slope c. 120m from a small NW-SE stream. St Mary’s Augustinian abbey (WX015-003004-) is built over the inner fosse of the ecclesiastical enclosure (WX015-003031-) around St. Aedan or Máedóg’s early monastery (WX015-003002-), which was identified in a magnetic gradiometry survey (15R042) (Dowling 2015, 9). Just SE of the abbey the same survey recorded a subcircular enclosure (int. dims c. 60m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) defined by interrupted sections of a fosse (Wth c. 3-4m). It could have an entrance at SW leading to the open SW end of a double-aisled masonry structure (WX015-003033-) (ibid. 10).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 22 February 2019

References

Dowling, G. 2015 Geophysical investigations at Ferns, Co. Wexford. Licence No. 15R042. Unpublished report, The Discovery Programme

Nearby in the register

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

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