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
- 52.29660, -6.99546
- SMR number
- WX039-018012-
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
A resistivity survey undertaken in 2014 (Flynn and Grennan 2016, 67-71) recovered evidence of what might be a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 70m E-W; c. 40m N-S) c. 100m W of the graveyard on the N side of the road. It does not extend S of the road and is defined by a curvilinear area of low resistivity that might be a fosse. It is approached by what might be a track from the N, and there are some indications of what might be a large stone building in the interior. (Curley et al. 2018, 29)
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.
Flynn, J. and Grennan, T. 2016 ‘What does the Kilmokea enclosure enclose?' in I. Doyle and B. Browne (eds) Medieval Wexford: Essays in memory of Billy Colfer, 62-72. Dublin, Four Courts Press
Nearby in the register
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.