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Ringfort - rath

Drummond, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Drummond, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 Unpublished report, Author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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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