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Fish-pond

Richfield, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fish-pond, Richfield, 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
Richfield
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.21148, -6.61026
SMR number
WX046-052004-

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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 on a level landscape inside the perimeter of moated site (WX046-052001-) at N. Inside the entrance at N is an inner water-filled moat (L 73m E-W; Wth 12m; D 3m) which does not connect with the outer moats and can be described as a fish-pond. Archaeological testing (06E0631) in removing tree-stumps within the moated site produced no archaeological material (Stafford 2009). The tower house of Ballymagir (WX046-052002-) is c. 25m S of the fish-pond.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 31 January, 2014

References

Stafford, E. 2009 Richfield House, Killag: testing. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 558, No. 2118. Dublin. 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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