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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
52.29660, -6.99546
SMR number
WX039-018012-

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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

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

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

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