Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Askinvillar Lower, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Askinvillar Lower
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.55401, -6.75405
- SMR number
- WX018-002----
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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
Situated on a fairly level landscape in the foothills of the Blackstairs Mountains. This is a rectangular grass and scrub-covered area (dims. 34.5m N-S; 31.5m E-W) with raised edges and corners, and an overgrown flat-bottomed moat (at N: Wth 7m; int. D 1.8m; ext. D 1.6m) on all sides except the S, where there is a W-E stream. There is a field bank on the outer edge of moat. (Barry 1977, 213, WX 3)
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
Barry, T.B. 1977 Medieval moated sites of south-eastern Ireland. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 35. Oxford.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.