Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Great Island, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Great Island
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.28452, -6.99602
- SMR number
- WX039-028004-
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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 100m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as an oval feature (dims c. 150m N-S; c. 100m E-W) on the 1940 ed. It is situated on gentle S and W-facing slope. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims. 100m NE-SW; 60m NW- SE) defined by scarps (at SE: H 0.5m, Wth 5m; at SW: Wth 9m, H 1m), with the perimeter incorporated into a field bank SW-W and truncated by a NNW-SSE field bank N-E. There is no visible fosse or entrance, but Major’s Well, a natural spring is inside the perimeter at SW. Ring-work (WX039-028001-) is c. 100m to the NW.
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: 28 January, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.