Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloghnagaune, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghnagaune
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Rath
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.94739, -6.62712
- SMR number
- WI027-032----
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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 steep N-facing slope of Calvinstown Hill. Marked 'Site of Rath' on 1838 OS 6-inch map, and on the 1907 edition as a small enclosure (max. diam. c. 30m). Visible on several Google Earth images from 2003 as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a bank in an unplanted area of forestry.
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: 16 October 2012
Nearby in the register
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.