Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mountnebo, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountnebo
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.71165, -6.36073
- SMR number
- WX006-030----
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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. 70m) in woodland only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated just off the S-facing crest at the E end of a W-E spur of Slievebaun. This is an oval enclosure (dims. 59m N–S; 49m E–W) within a coniferous forest defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2–3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.5–1m), with an external V-shaped fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.3m). There is no visible entrance. It is visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (2005) where the trees have been removed and it is bisected by an E-W forestry road. It remains unplanted in the renewed forest (Bing images 2011). Rath (WX005-031----) is c. 200m to the E.
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 March 2012
Amended: 14 May, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.