Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Killowen (gorey By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killowen (gorey By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.65994, -6.36204
- SMR number
- WX011-004----
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 on a gentle SW-facing slope with a SE-NW stream c. 200m to the SW. Marked as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) only on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. No feature is visible at ground level in a cereal crop. Rath (WX011-003----) is c. 50m to the WSW, and the possible rath (WX011-045----) is c. 160m to the ESE. It is visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (14/07/2018).
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (2018)
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 revision: 1 April, 2012
Amended: 23 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.