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Enclosure - large enclosure

Saltmills (Shelburne By., Tintern ED), County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Saltmills, 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
Saltmills (Shelburne By., Tintern ED)
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.23192, -6.83992
SMR number
WX045-096----

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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 towards the top of a NE-facing slope. The cropmark of a large enclosure (diam. c. 90m NE-SW) defined by a single narrow fosse feature was recorded on a drone-mounted camera by Paid Bates (Skypix) in July 2018, but the perimeter can only be seen SW-N-NE. The cropmarks of field drains can be seen radiating off it to the SW and NW. Although it is not recorded on any edition of the OS map it may have been an ornamental feature, perhaps enclosing a wood, and related to the Colclogh residence at Tintern Abbey c. 0.5km to the N. A length (L c. 100m; Wth c. 10m) of the old road from Clonmines and Tintern to Saltmills is visible just to the E as two narrow drain features aligned N-S.

Compiled by: Michael Moore based on details provided by Alan Ryan.

Date of upload: 24 July, 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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