Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Wells, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Wells
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.70037, -6.99293
- SMR number
- CW015-019----
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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
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Circular area (diam. c. 45m) enclosed by two banks and fosses. Substantial inner fosse (D at NW on inner face 1.7m; outer face, i.e. from top of bank, 3.4m; Wth 3.5m), massive flat-topped and steep-sided external bank (H above inner fosse 3.4m; above outer fosse 2.3m; Wth 10m) and second external fosse, filled in at E (est D 0.6m; Wth c 2m). Entrance at ESE. Slight traces of low internal bank visible SE-SSW and at W (D of interior below main bank, 2m).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.