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Enclosure

Rathumney, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Rathumney, 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
Rathumney
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.29949, -6.86783
SMR number
WX040-016001-

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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

Situated on top of a broad hill. Aerial photograph (GB89.AO.15) shows the cropmark of a large curvilinear enclosure (dim. c. 100m E-W) E-S-W with an entrance facing south east. The curve of the modern road appears to respect the eastern boundary of this monument. A curved fosse within the interior (C c. 20m) N-S of the enclosure appears aligned with a plough levelled field boundary and may not be contemporaneous. The cropmark of an incomplete circular rath (WX040-016----) defined by a fosse and with a narrow, concentric outer fosse is located in the adjoining field to the N. Both enclosures appear to be part of the same monument.

Date of upload: 03 March, 2010.

Gillian Barrett: AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION

Nearby in the register

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

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