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Enclosure - large enclosure

Killowen (Shelburne By.), County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Killowen, 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
Killowen (Shelburne By.)
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.33538, -6.97668
SMR number
WX034-043001-

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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

Located on a gentle S-facing slope. This is a subrectangular wooded feature (dims 102m N-S: 97m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6-8.5m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 2-3m) with rounded corners and an external fosse (Wth of top 5.5-8m; Wth of base 2-3m; ext. D 0.5-1m) on all sides except the SW. There is an entrance (Wth 7m), now blocked, on the SW side with a roadway in the interior defined by a scarp down to the road surface on the N side and a stone wall on the S side leading from the SW entrance to rectangular enclosures at the N corner of the interior. These are probably modern, and there is an entrance (Wth 2.5m) and causeway on the NE side that is probably original. A bullaun stone (dims. 0.9m x 0.45m; H 0.35m) with a single basin (diam. 0.28m; D 8 cm) is inside the perimeter at the S corner. (Westropp 1918, 13)

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: 13 September, 2012

References

Westropp, T.J. 1918 Five large earthworks in the barony of Shelbourne, Co. Wexford, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquries of Ireland, vol. 48, 1-18.

Nearby in the register

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

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