Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mounthoward Upper, County Wexford, Ireland
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----
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 LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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 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.
See the attached view from Google Earth
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 18 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.