Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leper hospital
Great Island, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Great Island
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Leper Hospital (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.28735, -6.99880
- SMR number
- WX039-028005-
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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
There is one reference to a leper hospital in a partial survey of Great Island in 1607-08 (Hore 1910-11, vol. 3, 229), with the 1940 ed. of the OS 6 inch map providing the only evidence of the location towards the top of a steep slope down the N-S River Barrow/Nore. Shaw Mason (1816, vol. 3, 542) records that a large collection of human bones was found at Greatisland, perhaps at this location within the ringwork (WX039-028001-). The burial of two adults in a stone compartment (WX039-028006-) was investigated in 1979 close to this location (Cahill 2011).
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
References
Shaw-Mason, W. 1814-19 Statistical account or parochial survey of Ireland, 3 vols. Dublin. J. Cumming.
Cahill, M. 2011 6.45 Great Island, Co. Wexford, E1185. in Cahill, M and Sikora, M. (eds) Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. 2 vols. Vol. 2, 432-4. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.