Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Harristown Big, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Harristown Big
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.34670, -6.64718
- SMR number
- WX036-058----
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
Situated at the S edge of a fairly level landscape and overlooking the ravine of the Corrock river on the N side at a point where the Corrock turns from SE-NW to E-W. There is a local tradition of a church at this location. It was quarried c. 1985 but there are no reports of any masonry or bones being discovered. It is an active quarry. Archaeological testing (06E0778) on a large triangular site (dims. c. 240m N-S; c. 270m E-W at N) c. 100m to the NE produced no archaeological material or features (McLoughlin 2009).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 8 November, 2012
References
McLoughlin, C. 2009 Harristown. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavatinos 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 558, N0. 2117, Dublin, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
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- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.