Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Newtown Lower (gorey By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown Lower (gorey By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.77220, -6.24578
- SMR number
- WX003-005----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked as an oval embanked, or double banked, enclosure (ext. dims c. 60m NE-SW; c. 45m NW-SE) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated at the crest of a SE-facing slope with a NW-SE stream in its valley c. 140m to the NE. It is not visible at ground level as the area has been extensively quarried.
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: 14 February 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.