Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Croghan Upper, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Croghan Upper
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.78206, -6.32197
- SMR number
- WX002-002----
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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 S and SW-facing slope of Croghan Mountain. It is marked on the 1839 OS 6-inch map as a large embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 85m) and as a large oval enclosure (dims. c. 100m E-W; c. 80m N-S) on the 1924 ed. It appears from aerial photographs (GSIAP, T 40/41) to have been a large bivallate ringfort, perhaps with an annexe attached at E. The only indication at ground level in pasture is the curve of field fence at S (C c. 90m) and slight trace of fosse at W (Wth 5m). It is visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 80m) on a series of vertical aerial photographs (OSI 2000), with an annexe to the E, both surrounded by an outer fosse which provided its oval shape on the 1924 ed. of the 6-inch map.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 27 September, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.