Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Crory, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crory
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57788, -6.50444
- SMR number
- WX015-092----
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 towards the bottom of a gentle SE-facing slope down to the meandering NE-SW River Bann which is c. 150m distant. The cropmark of a bulb-shaped area (diam. c. 70m NW-SE) defined by a narrow ditch is visible on iMAPs (2022). At N and SE the defining ditch extends off to the NE (L c. 85m plus NE-SW) from both points rather than enclosing a circle until the meet a NNW-SSE field bank and townland boundary with Castleland, but the perimeter cannot be traced beyond those points. Parallel ditches (c. 10m apart) extending from the N encounter the perimeter tangentially at NW, and another ditch loops S and E externally from the ditch at W. The large enclosure is partially visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from iMAPs (2022)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.