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Moated site

Rathaspick, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Rathaspick, 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
Rathaspick
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.30165, -6.49749
SMR number
WX042-092----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1811 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1811 · 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 a fairly level landscape. Archaeological monitoring (01E0250) associated with roadworks identified medieval material just N of Rathaspick church site (WX042-010001-). Further sampling (01E0345) confirmed that an extensive complex was involved, including several ditches, and led the excavator to suggest that it may have been a moated site (Mullins 2003).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 28 May, 2013

Mullins, C. 2003 Rathaspick. Possible medieval settlement adjacent to church site. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 405-06, No. 1315. Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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