Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Ferns Demesne, County Wexford, Ireland
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 AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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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
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.