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Ringfort - rath

Windgap Or Ardmore, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Windgap Or Ardmore, County Waterford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Windgap Or Ardmore
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.34153, -7.49247
SMR number
WA003-007001-

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David 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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated towards the top of a NE-facing slope, at the N edge of a broad plateau. Subcircular platform (dims. 39m E-W; 33.5m N-S) defined by a retaining wall (H 1.3m) and a road E-S-W, and by a fosse (Wth of top 5m; int. D 1.2m; ext. D 0.6m) elsewhere. The entrance is not evident, but it is planted with coniferous trees. It was described as an early church site (Power 1952, 394), but this is unlikely. A souterrain (WA003-007005-) with an oghan stone (WA003-007003-) is in the NW quadratn of the interior. The L-shaped souterrain is now roofless, with an entrance passage at E (L 6.2m E-W; Wth 3.5m; D 0.7m) which turns S (L 6.2m N-S; Wth 1-1.25m). Two lintels are visible in situ in the S passage. One displaced lintel has an ogham inscription (WA003-007004-) which was read by Macalister (1945, vol. 1, 295) as MODDAGN[I] MAQI GATTAGN[I] MUCOI LUGNI, while a second ogham stone was destroyed c. 1890 (Macalister 1909, 296; 1945, vol. 1, 296).

Macalister, R. A. S. (1909) The ogham stones near Clonmel and Carrick-on-Suir. JRSAI 39, 294-6.
Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) (reprint 1949) Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum, 2 vols. Stationery Office, Dublin.
Power, Rev. P. (1952) The placenames of the Decies. (second ed.) Cork University Press.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 19 October 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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