Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drummond, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drummond
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70305, -6.44395
- SMR number
- WX006-084----
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 on a level landscape. The cropmark of a bivallate enclosure (max. ext. diam. c. 50m) defined by a wider inner and narrow outer fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (15) 7–10). It is also visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). Archaeological testing (19E0808) by c. 30m to the NW at the closest point produced no related material (excavations.ie 2020:060). (Whitty 2019)
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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: 2 March, 2012
Amended: 6 May, 2014; 9 November 2022
References
Whitty, Y. 2019 Test Trenching Report at Drummond, Bellyellis, Co. Wexford. Licence: 19E0808. Unpublished report, Author
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - pondunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.