Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mountfin Lower Or Ballinturner, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountfin Lower Or Ballinturner
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.58825, -6.58857
- SMR number
- WX015-002----
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
Situated at the crest of the E-facing slope of the N-S River Slaney valley, with the river c. 850m to the E and c. 60m lower. This is an oval area (dims. 54m NNE-SSW; 31m WNW-ESE) defined by earthen bank (Wth 5.2-6.3m; int. H 0.5-1m; ext. H 1.3-1.6m) with a complete outer fosse (Wth of top 4.5-7.3m; D 0.7-1 m), and a counterscarp bank SSE-SW. The ramp entrance (Wth 4m) is at NE. It is growing mixed woodland trees.
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: 30 April, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.