Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Tomona, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tomona
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55457, -6.72285
- SMR number
- WX019-001----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a W-facing slope with the N-S Urin River c. 300m to the W. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 90m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; H 2m) NNW-NE and elsewhere by the remains of a bank or a scarp. The entrance (Wth 5m) is at NNE. A trial excavation found the base of a bank (Wth c. 6m) with an internal fosse (Wth of top c. 2.5m; D c. 1m) and an external fosse (Wth of top c. 5m; D c. 1.2m) at S (Fanning 1972).
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 revision/upload: 22 May, 2012
References
Fanning, T. 1972 Circular enclosure at Tomona, Co. Wexford. Journal of the Wexford Historical Society, vol. 4, 40-2
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.