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Ringfort - rath

Spinans Middle, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Spinans Middle, County Wicklow, 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
Spinans Middle
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
52.95343, -6.64168
SMR number
WI027-102----

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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)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Depicted on the 1838 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a polygonal-shaped woodland plantation on the landscaped demesne lands of Kilranelagh House located 300m to S. Not depicted as an antiquity on any ed. OSi historic maps. Present remains consists of a raised sub-oval or polygonal-shaped area (dims. c. 60m N-S x 60m E-W) enclosed by a tree-covered earth and stone bank with external facing visible in places, fosse and external bank with faint traces of a possible outer fosse. A narrow break in the bank with a corresponding brake in slope to NE may represent the remains of an entrance. A post-1700 grotto has been built across the top of the outer fosse at S. Possible remains of a ringfort that was re-used as a landscape feature or tree-ring associated with nearby Kilranelagh House. Visible as a tree-lined enclosure on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/05/2020.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages and ground photographs supplied by Robert Hanbidge

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Robert Hanbidge

Date of upload: 25 Febuary 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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