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Building

Raheenaclonagh, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Building, Raheenaclonagh, 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
Raheenaclonagh
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.37554, -6.77438
SMR number
WX035-097003-

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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 at the bottom of a NE-facing slope on the NE-SW spine of Carrickbyrne Hill, and on the W side of a NW-SE road. A mass-rock (WX035-097001-) was known locally to be in an area that had been overgrown until 2000 AD when the owner and others cleared it(http://www.newbawnns.info/ringsofred/churches.htm accessed on 30-10-2012). The mass-rock was associated with a granite cross (WX035-097002-), and a building at the roadside, regarded locally as a hege-school, was conserved at the same time. This is a two-room structure (int. dims 9.85m NW-SE; 2.8m NE-SW) defined by low, clay-bonded walls (T 0.55m; H 0.6m), with an entrance (Wth 0.5m) from the road at the S end of the NE wall marked by upright stones (dims. 0.45m x 0.1m; H 1.05-1.15m). An internal wall divides it into two rooms of almost equal size with a gap (Wth 0.6m) against the NE wall. There is no evidence of a fireplace.

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Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 31 October, 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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