Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Templeshelin, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Templeshelin
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked encoosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.39340, -6.76059
- SMR number
- WX030-062----
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
Marked as a bivallate embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m), possibly with a pit at the centre, on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated in a broad N-S valley with a stream c. 10m to the E. It is not visible at ground level at the lowest point of a field planted with cereals.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 August, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.