Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Rathduff, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathduff
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52188, -6.76220
- SMR number
- WX018-009----
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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
Depicted as a D-shaped area (dims. c. 30m N-S; c. 20m E-W) and described as the 'site fort' on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is located in a slight N-S valley in the foothills of the Blackstairs Mountains with the N-S Milltown Stream c. 50m to the W. Nothing is visible at ground level in pasture and there is no local knowledge of an antiquity.
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: 22 May, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.