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Enclosure - large enclosure

Great Island, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large 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
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.28452, -6.99602
SMR number
WX039-028004-

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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

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

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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