What is recorded here
Ecclesiastical enclosure in Ballyregan (scarawalsh By.), Bolacreen (scarawalsh By.) is an ecclesiastical enclosure in Ballyregan (scarawalsh By.), Bolacreen (scarawalsh By.), County Wexford, Ireland. It is situated towards the bottom of the south-facing slope of Carrigroe Hill, with a small stream running from northeast to southwest located roughly seventy metres to the south. The site features a D-shaped enclosure measuring approximately forty-six metres on a north-northeast to south-southwest axis and forty metres on a west-northwest to east-southeast axis, defined by a fosse two to three metres wide that is only visible as a cropmark on Google Earth.
Located towards the bottom of the S-facing slope of Carrigroe Hill, with a small NE-SW stream c. 70m to the S. The graveyard (WX016-023----) is at the N edge of a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 46m NNE-SSW; c. 40m WNW-ESE) defined by a fosse (Wth c. 2-3m) that is only visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (14/07/2018). It is cut by a NNE-SSW field bank and townland boundary with Bollacreen (L c. 40m) at W and is not visible at the other side of the field bank where there is now a modern house. There are entrance gaps at SE (Wth c. 5m) and S (Wth c. 6.5m), and a rectangular enclosure (WX016-023002-) is attached to the perimeter at NE. The cropmark was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 18 September 2019
Amended: 11 June 2020
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