Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moneycross Lower, County Wexford, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.