Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Saltee Island Little, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Saltee Island Little
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.13392, -6.59101
- SMR number
- WX051B004----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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
The headland marked on the OS discovery map for the site of a promontory fort (upper picture) shows no sign of having been defended. A low rocky promontory on the southern tip of Little Saltee has an earthen bank or collapsed and grassed-over stone wall crossing it (lower picture [WX051B004----]). Not yet visited. The possible fort [WX051A002001] on the Great Saltee is not marked on the discovery map and possibly the islands were mixed up by the OS. (Casey 2001)
References
Casey, M. 2001 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland: interim report for the Heritage Council. Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.