Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Spinans Middle, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Spinans Middle
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.96409, -6.63681
- SMR number
- WI027-016----
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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
Situated on a natural level platform at a break on a W-facing slope of Spinans Hill. Circular enclosure (dims. 26m N-S; 24.5m E-W) defined by a bank (max. H c. 1.5m) and external fosse (max. Wth 4.3m), best visible at the S. There are several gaps but the original may have been that at the NNW, where there are possible traces of a causeway. There is an area of ridge and furrow cultivation (dims. c. 20m x 30m) immediately outside the site to the SE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.