Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Fox'S Castle, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fox'S Castle
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.15875, -7.49929
- SMR number
- WA024-031----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle NW-facing slope with an E-W stream c. 130m to the N. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 29m WNW-ESE; 29.5m NNE-SSW) defined by a bank incorporated into a field bank NW-E (at NNE: Wth 4.2m; int. and ext. H 1.05m), with an outer fosse (Wth 3m, D c. 0.2m) NNW-E. Elsewhere the perimeter is defined by a widely spread bank. There is no visible entrance.
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: 30th July, 2010.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.