Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Curraghduff (shelburne By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghduff (shelburne By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.32119, -6.92025
- SMR number
- WX039-014----
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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 small rectangular embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 35m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) constrained by straight field banks at NW and NE on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle SE-facing slope at the S foothills of Slievecoiltia Hill. It is not visible at ground level in a lawn and there is no local knowledge of an antiquity. It is listed as a moated site (Barry 1977, 219, WX 49), but because of its small area it may have been a ringfort.
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: 24 January, 2013
References
Barry, T.B. 1977 Medieval moated sites of south-eastern Ireland. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 35. Oxford.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.