Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Banntown, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Banntown
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.65804, -6.36649
- SMR number
- WX011-044----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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 NE-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) defined by a narrow fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (53) 5-8). It is slightly truncated by a NE-SW field bank at SE and there is an entrance gap at SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 April, 2012
Amended: 8 May, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.