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Enclosure

Great Island, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Great Island, 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
Great Island
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.29704, -6.99457
SMR number
WX039-018011-

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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

Westropp describes an earthwork enclosure within the ecclesiastical enclosure (WX039-018007-) N of the E-W pubic road and W of the stream (1918, 9). It was rectangular ‘114 feet along the stream’ and its N end bent W ’42 feet back to a (N-S) fence, beyond which I found no trace' (ext. dims c. 42m N-S; c. 13m E-W). It was defined by two low earthen banks with a slight intervening fosse (total Wth c. 4.5m). It may have been a moated site truncated by a N-S field bank at W, but it does not survive in a deciduous wood. LiDAR imagery and an earth resistance survey confirm the existence of this enclosure (Curley et al. 2018, 28-9).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 11 June, 2018

References

Curley, D.; Flynn, J.; and K. Barton 2018 Bouncing beams reveal hiden archaeology. Archaeology Ireland, vol. 2, No. 2, *124), 24-9.

Westropp, T.J. 1918 Five large earthworks in the barony of Shelbourne, Co. Wexford, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquries of Ireland, vol. 48, 1-18.

Nearby in the register

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

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