Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Raheen (scarawalsh By., Kilcomb Ed), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raheen (scarawalsh By., Kilcomb Ed)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.66485, -6.44304
- SMR number
- WX011-035----
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 the W side of a N-S spur, which is on the S side of Slievegower Hill, c. 1km to the NNW. This is a slightly raised and overgrown subrectangular area (dims. 30m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by field banks at the N and E and scarps on the curved S (H 0.7m) side and the straight W (H 1.1m) side. There are traces of an external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.3m) on the W side, but there is no evidence of an entrance.
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: 12 April, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.