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Saintleonards, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Saintleonards, 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
Saintleonards
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Site of St. Leonards Church
Latest-edition OS map
St Leonards Church (Site of)
Coordinates
52.25828, -6.80683
SMR number
WX045-010001-

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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

Saintleonards is within the parish of Tintern and is within the original grant of 1207 to the Cistercian abbey (WX045-027001-) (Colfer 2002, 185-88). The church probably served as a chapel-of-ease for a grange or outfarm of the abbey. References to the church date from 1552 when it is listed as a chapel (Hore 1901-11, vol. 2, 92). It is depicted faintly as a rectangular feature (dims c. 20m E-W; c. 15m N-S) within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 30-50m E-W; c. 30m N-S) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a slight S-facing slope, and on the N side of the ENE-WSW R733 Wexford town to Duncannon road. This is a triangular overgrown area (dims. c. 35m E-W; c. 26m N-S) defined by the road bank at S, a N-S stone wall at W and an earthen bank (Wth 3.2m; ext. H 0.6m; int. H 1.15m) at NE. Inside the bank at NE is a sunken wet area (Wth 6m) with a stone wall footing or low bank (Wth 1.6m; max. H 0.6m; L 22m) on its inner edge. There are no recognisable foundations of a structure or any evidence of burial in the interior. The site of Toberernan (WX045-011----) is c. 320m to the SSE.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload/revision: 23 July 2013

References

Colfer, B. 2002 Arrogant trespass: Anglo-Norman Wexford 1169-1400. Enniscorthy, Duffry Press

Nearby in the register

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

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