Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolatin, County Wexford, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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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
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial ground1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ring1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.