Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corragh, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corragh
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.68099, -6.60439
- SMR number
- WX004-008----
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 enclosure (diam. c. 60m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of a steep NW-facing slope of Gibbet Hill. It was probably oval originally but it is now subrectangular (dims. c. 55m NE-SW; c. 50m NW-SE) defined by an E-W field bank at S, a curved field bank SW–NW and scarp (H 1.5m) NW-NE, but the perimeter cannot be traced elswhere.
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: 29 February 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.