Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Rosspile, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rosspile
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.29921, -6.74169
- SMR number
- WX040-095001-
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
Located on a gently undulating shelf in the valley of the N-S Corock River, with the meandering stream c. 200m to the E at the closest point. A magnetic gradiometer survey (20R0129) over an extensive area confirmed the existence of the moated site (WX040-095----), and also recognised the drains of a field system directly related to it extending off to the N and E which covers about 2.5 ha (c. 7 acres). The fields are generally rectangular (dims c. 30m x c. 20m to c. 60m x c. 50m) defined by single ditches and with regimes of cultivation ridges usually confined to individual fields. These fields merge into larger rectangular fields usually defined by double ditches further to the N and E that are depicted on the 1839 edition of the OS 6-inch map. (Nicholls 2020, 9 F 25-29, Fig. 9)
See the attached view from Nicholls (2020, Fig. 9)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 30 December 2020
References
Nicholls, J. 2020 Geophysical Survey Report: Proposed Rosspile Solar Farm, Co. Wexford. Licence: 20R0129. Unpublished report, Target Archaeological Geophysics
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.