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Ringfort - rath

Raheen (Scarawalsh By., Tombrack ED), County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Raheen, 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
Raheen (Scarawalsh By., Tombrack ED)
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.63072, -6.58659
SMR number
WX010-028----

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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)
  • 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 E end of a low E-W ridge. Marked as a D-shaped wooded enclosure on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a sub-rectangular enclosure (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 45m N-S) defined by a field bank and bisected by a NW-SE road on the 1925 ed. of the map. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 50m NW–SE; 27m NE–SW) on the SW side of the road defined by a straight NW–SE road bank and and a curved earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.4-0.7m; ext. H 1.1-1.4m) SE–W–NW, but there is no visible fosse. There are entrances against the road bank at NW (Wth 5.6m) and SE (Wth 5.7m). Moated site (WX010-011----) is c. 20m to the W, on the other side of the road.

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: 11 April, 2012
Amended: 13 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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