Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Holmestown Little, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Holmestown Little
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.35114, -6.58427
- SMR number
- WX037-019----
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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 rectangular roofed structure (dims c. 15m E-W; c. 8m N-S) described as 'Church (in ruins)' on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6 inch map and as what is probably a single gable on the 1941 ed. It is located on a shelf at the bottom of an E-facing slope and c. 15m N of the edge of the ravine (D c. 10m) of a S-N stream that is part of the headwaters of the Polehore Pill. Cairn material was removed in the 1980s leaving the vegetation mark of a rectangular enclosure (ext. dims 20m N-S; 15m E-W), but the E edge appears to have been missing.
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: 14 December, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.