Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Coolcliffe, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolcliffe
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.30111, -6.73269
- SMR number
- WX041-071----
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 at the bottom of a W-facing slope with a meandering N-S section of the combined Corrock River c. 150m to the W. A magnetic gradiometer survey (20R0129) over an extensive area identified an enclosure (diam. c. 32m) defined by faint traces interrupted sections of a fosse or individual pits on land that was once part of the demesne of Coolcliffe House. (Nicholls 2020, 11 F 45, Fig. 13, 26)
See the attached view from Nicholls (2020, Fig. 13, top left)
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 Unpublished report, Target Archaeological Geophysics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
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.