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Ferns Demesne, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Structure, 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
52.58931, -6.49069
SMR number
WX015-003033-

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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. A magnetic gradiometry survey (15R042) recorded a subcircular enclosure (WX015-003032-) just SE of St Mary’s abbey (WX015-003004-). Within the enclosure magnetic gradiometry and resistivity surveys identified a rectangular masonry structure (max. dims c. 12m NW-SE; c. 10m NE-SW) defined by masonry walls (Wth c. 1m) with a NE-SW diving wall, but no SW wall (Dowling 2015, 9).

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 Unpublished report, The Discovery Programme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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