Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Askinvillar Upper, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Askinvillar Upper
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.55171, -6.75912
- SMR number
- WX018-001001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a gentle E-facing slope at the foothills of the Blackstairs Mountains. This is an early ecclesiastical site, although the saint is not known. The graveyard is marked faintly as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map with a church building inside it. A fragment of a church wall and the nearby St Doran's Well are recorded by John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 103) and there was also a possible bullaun stone or font at the well (Ua Dubhghaill 1925, 95) but none of these features survive. Traces of a circular ecclesiastical enclosure (diam. c. 70m) are visible as a band of subsoil on the surface when the field is ploughed. A granite cross (H 0.76m; Wth 0.38m; T 7cm) with an incised cross on one face and a raised boss on the other is within the small graveyard (ext. dims. 12m N-S; 11m E-W) defined by masonry walls that is possibly a family graveyard now. A second granite cross (H 0.7m; Wth 0.35m; max. T 0.14m) with an elaborately incised cross on one side and a tennon at the base is also within the graveyard. Archaeological testing (05E0893) to withn 30m S and SW of the graveyard produced no archaeological material (McLoughlin 2008).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 22 May, 2012
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1933 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of County Wexford, collected during progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Typescript in 2 vols. Bray.
Ua Dubhghaill, S. 1925 List of ancient churches, graveyards, castles, wells, etc. The Past, vol. 3, 86-99.
McLoughlin, C. 2008 Askinvillar Lower. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 394, No. 1605. Dublin, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.