Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Glascarrig North, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glascarrig North
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.58164, -6.20708
- SMR number
- WX017-010002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated just S of the surviving wall of Glascarrig priory (WX017-010001-) archaeological testing (99E0107) uncovered a pit (dims. 1.4m x 1.1m) containing four sherds of 12th/13th century pottery (Ó Drisceoil 2000), but further work (08E0033) failed to produce any related material (Ó Drisceoil 2011).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 May, 2012
References
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2011 Glascarrig. No arhcaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2008. Summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 373, No. 1279. Wordwell. Dublin.
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2000 Glascarrig North. Adjacent to monastery. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 372, No. 880. Wordwell. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Monks of the Order of Tironunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.