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Church

Kilcannon, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Kilcannon, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilcannon
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Site of Church
Latest-edition OS map
Church (Site of)
Coordinates
52.52425, -6.53437
SMR number
WX020-021001-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1811 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Marked as the site of a church on the 1839 and 1940 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the bottom of a steep, wooded scarp down to the flood-plain of the N-S River Slaney, which is c. 120m to the E. This is a rubble-strewn and overgrown area (dims. 17m E-W; 14m N-S) in a pasture field with the foundations of some walls visible. An arc of an ecclesiastical enclosure survives as a scarp NNE-ESE (C 78m) just to the E. There is no evidence of burial. The holy well (WX020-020----) is c. 40m SW of the church.

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: 31 May, 2012

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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