Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carranroe, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carranroe
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.58978, -6.62314
- SMR number
- WX014-042----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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
Located at the bottom of a steep E-facing slope which overlooks a slight col with a low hill c. 700m to the E. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 48m E-W; c. 45m NNE-SSW) defined by a single fosse feature that is only evident SW-N-E is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). There may be an entrance at E. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditch1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ring1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.