Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knocknalour, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknalour
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67998, -6.54751
- SMR number
- WX005-022----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated towards the bottom of an E-facing slope, overlooking a col to the SE. The cropmark of a circular area (int. diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (2018). There is an entrance gap (Wth c. 5m) at SE. The rath (WX005-008001-) is c. 20m to the SE. It was first reported by Faith Bailey.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 October, 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.