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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Tomhaggard, County Wexford, Ireland

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Townland
Tomhaggard
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.21581, -6.49314
SMR number
WX047-052003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located just N of the graveyard of Tomhaggard parish church (WX047-052001-). Archaeological testing (04E0840) in a D-shaped field (dims c. 70m E-W; c. 30m N-S) produced evidence of two large curving fosses centred on the church. The inner ditch (Wth 2.7-3.1m) was just N of the graveyard wall and the outer fosse (Wth 2.9-3.5m) was more curved and was just inside the curving field boundary. A wider fosse (Wth 7m) appeared in the most westerly trench. All features produced medieval pottery, and the ditches can be interpreted as a multi-vallate ecclesiastical enclosure. (McLoughlin 2004; 2007)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

References

McLoughlin, C. 2004 Pre-planning archaeological assessment, Tomhaggard, Co. Wexford. Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology. Unpublished report,National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

McLoughlin, C. 2007 Tomhaggard. Medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 471, No. 1828. Dublin. Wordwell.

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