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Moated site

Newbawn, County Wexford, Ireland

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Townland
Newbawn
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.34359, -6.77967
SMR number
WX035-041----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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 rectangular enclosure with two banks or moats (ext. dims. c. 40m E-W; c. 35m N-S) only on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6 inch map, and situated towards the top of a SE-facing slope. It is not visible at ground level in a cereal crop, but the E moat or fosse is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX035-041_1, to _4) taken in 2006, and an outline of it can be seen on an OSI series of aerial photographs (1995). It may be a moated site (Barry 1977, 225, WX 92).

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: 15 October, 2012

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

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