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Ringfort - rath

Coolatin, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Coolatin, 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
Coolatin
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.61927, -6.61209
SMR number
WX009-018----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated at the SW end of a short NE-SW ridge, with a NW-SE section of the River Slaney c. 300m to the NE and a SW-NE portion of the Glasha River is c. 300m to the SE. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 60m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined by a single fosse is visible on Google Earth (27/06/2018; 14/07/2018). An entrance is not identified but It may have been at E where there is the cropmark of what is probably a large rectangular pit or quarry (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 25m N-S). The rath was first reported by Faith Bailey and was also reported by Simon Dowling.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 21 October 2019
Amended: 28 February 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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