Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Pallis Lower, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallis Lower
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.74940, -6.31686
- SMR number
- WX002-018----
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) that is truncated by a NE-SW field bank at SE on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is located on a S-facing slope of Pallis Hill. This is a circular, grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 30m) defined by wide low bank (Wth 5–6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.5m) and an external fosse (Wth of top 5m; D 0.2m). There is no visible entrance. Moated site (WX002-017----) is c. 90m to the W.
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 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Urn burialunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.