Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clonamona Upper,knockbrandon Upper, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonamona Upper,knockbrandon Upper
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.69832, -6.42015
- SMR number
- WX006-078----
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
Located just off the crest of an E-facing slope overlooking the valley of the N-S Lask River, with the stream c. 1km to the E and c. 120m lower. This is a a raised D-shaped and grass-covered area (dims 25m NE-SW; 12m NW-SE; H 0.8-1m) in Clonamona Upper cut by the NE-SW field bank and townland boundary with Knockbrandon Upper at the NW. It has no visible fosse or entrance, and is not visible NW of the boundary.
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: 1March, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.