Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Great Island, County Wexford, Ireland
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 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
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
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.