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Ringfort - rath

Mounthoward Upper, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Mounthoward Upper, 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
Mounthoward Upper
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.57353, -6.35780
SMR number
WX016-064----

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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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located at the crest of a NE-facing slope. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 42m N-S) defined by a fosse feature SW-N-E is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). The perimeter is truncated slightly by a NE-SW field boundary at SE and also be a NW-SE field bank at SW, but a section of the fosse (L c. 15m) can be seen at S between the two field banks. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillère.

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Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 18 September 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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