Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cummer, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cummer
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.73399, -6.42743
- SMR number
- WX002-062----
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
Situated in rough pasture on a gentle S-facing slope with the headwaters of the N-S River Lask c. 130m to the W. This is a circular area (diam. 25.5m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-3m; int. H 1-2m; ext. H 1-2m) with an external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.4m) N-E-S. Elsewhere there is a stream. The entrance (Wth 3m) is at S.
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: 1 February 2012.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - ring-cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.