Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clonsilla West, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonsilla West
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70995, -6.28648
- SMR number
- WX007-059----
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 at the crest of the NE-facing slope of a ridge. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) defined by a single slight fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (15) 3–4), incorporating a field bank in the perimeter SE-WSW.
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: 16 March, 2012
Amended: 6 May, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.