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Ringfort - rath

Ask, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ask, 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
Ask
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.69844, -6.26499
SMR number
WX007-020002-

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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)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (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

Marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m), but it is not marked on a manuscript map of 1821 in NLI (14 A 23, 8). It is situated towards the bottom of the W-acing slope of Ask Hill, but no feature is visible at ground level in pasture. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a fosse feature with a possible entrance gap at N is visible on aerial photographs (MM (53) 21, 22). A berm (Wth c. 10-15m) separates the fosse from an outer, perfectly circular ditch feature SW-N-SE. The ditch backs onto the cropmark of an E-W stream which originates at the mound (WX007-020001-) c. 10m ESE of the rath.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 15 March, 2012
Amended: 8 May, 2014

Nearby in the register

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

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