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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Templescoby, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Templescoby, 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
Templescoby
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.49371, -6.63488
SMR number
WX025-064----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: 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

Situated on a gentle SE-facing slope. The name ‘Templescoby’ occurs on the Down Survey (1656) county, barony and parish maps as a townland name in Rosdrehide parish. The east edge of Rosdroit parish was transformed into a separate parish called Templescoby by the Church of Ireland in 1806, and its church – St Paul’s - was completed in 1817 c. 1.5km to the E (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 614). The name is derived from the Gaelic Teampall Scuaibe – the church of Scuaibe, but a saint of this name is not known (Ó Riain 2011). The church at Moneyhore (WX025-43001-) is c. 1.1km to the W.
An early church seems to have been established here, and there are local traditions of a monastery, a burial ground (IFC: Schools Collection vol. 0901, 201, 236, 294), and an old town (SMR file). The only evidence of the church is the cropmark of a large enclosure (ext. diam. c. 350m E-W; c. 310m N-S) defined by two fosse features placed c. 8m apart that can be traced only on Google Earth (14/07/2018) curving S-NNW, and its course might be traced in other features E-S. Situated c. 20-25m inside this double fosse is a single fosse traceable S-NW. Indications of what might be two banks roughly following these lines can be seen on OSI images (2005). It was also noted by Simon Dowling.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 19 September 2019
Amended: 6 March 2020

References

Ó Riain, P. 2011 A dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin. Four Courts Press.

SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.

Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.

Nearby in the register

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

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