Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Concentric enclosure
Genstown, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Genstown
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.20239, -6.50677
- SMR number
- WX052-042----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
Situated on a level landscape. The cropmark of a bivallate circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 45m; ext. diam. c. 80m) defined by a wider inner fosse feature (Wth c. 3m) and slighter outer fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (3) 33-37). There is a subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 30m NW-SE; c. 15m NE-SW) defined by a slight fosse feature inside the inner enclosure, No entrances can be detected, but a drain or narrow stream connects the defining features radially at NW and a similar feature connects them at SSE and extends further in this direction.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 18 February, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Windmillunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.