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Enclosure - large enclosure

Ferns Demesne, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large 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
52.58783, -6.48937
SMR number
WX015-080----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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 very gentle E-facing slope. The cropmark of a large enclosure (diam. c. 90m E-W) defined by a wide fosse feature (Wth c.3m) was recorded by a drone-mounted camera in July 2018. The ditch describes a curve S-W and is visible as a low bank feature in the pasture field to the E on other aerial images (digitalmap).

See the attached view looking SW courtesy of Dinny Kinsella and Barry Lacey.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 23 August, 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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