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Ringfort - rath

Moneycross Lower, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Moneycross Lower, 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
Moneycross Lower
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.63666, -6.33318
SMR number
WX011-084----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a gentle S-facing slope. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 35m N-S; c. 30m) defined by a fosse ESE-W-NE is visible on Google Earth (28/06/2018; 14/07/2018; 18/07/2021) but the perimeter is incorporated into a NNW-SSE field boundary elsewhere, and an outer fosse c. 5m distant W-N is also visible. However, this fosse attaches to the inner fosse at S and it may represent an annexe. The monument was first reported by Faith Bailey.

See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (14/07/2018)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload; 17 January 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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