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Enclosure

Mersheen, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Mersheen, 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
Mersheen
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.23207, -6.93938
SMR number
WX044-049----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located at the crest of a severe W-facing slope (H c. 50m) down to the estuary of the Barrow/Nore/Suir that is c. 200m to the SW. The cropmark of a D-shaped/oval feature (ext. dims c. 80m E-W; c. 45m N-S) defined by four fosse features with the narrowest at the centre (int. diam. c. 20m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (41) 20-22; ASIAP (101) 33-35) taken in July 2000. It is truncated by a NE-SW field bank at NW and a NW-SE boundary with the severe wooded slope at SW. A NE-SW archaeological test trench (12E0159) just to the NW produced no evidence of this feature, although a cremation pit-burial (WX044-051----) was identified in the trench c. 150m to the NE (Ó Drisceoil 2012b)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 15 March, 2016

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Ó Drisceoil, C. 2012b Preliminary archaeological excavation report. Mersheen Townland, County Wexford. Licence No. 12E0159. Unpublished report, Kilkenny Archaeology

Nearby in the register

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

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