Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Askinvillar Upper, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Askinvillar Upper
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55171, -6.75912
- SMR number
- WX018-001007-
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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 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 (WX018-001002-) is marked faintly as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map with a church building (WX018-001001-) inside it. Traces of a circular ecclesiastical enclosure (diam. c. 70m) are visible as a band of subsoil on the surface when the field is ploughed. The site of St. Doran's Well (WX018-001003-) is just outside the enclosure at NNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 22 May, 2012
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.