Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mocurry West, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mocurry West
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.56138, -6.73067
- SMR number
- WX014-023----
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on an E-facing slope of a NW-SE spur at the foothills of the Blackstairs Mountains, and overlooking the N-S Urrin River which is c. 250m to the E. This is is a circular overgrown area (diam. c. 25-30m) defined by a scarp (H 1m at S to 2m at N) with a berm at its base. The monument is truncated at S by an E-W field bank.
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: 26 April, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.