Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grange Upper, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange Upper
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.50413, -6.77788
- SMR number
- WX018-018----
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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
Marked as a cirucular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50-55m) surrounded by a field bank W-N-E on the 1839 and 1921 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a SE-facing slope. The site has been removed but it is possible to trace the outline of two banks and an intervening fosse as a vegetation mark (int. diam. 31m; max. ext. dim. 59m). There is a break in the outer bank SE–SSW. It is visible as a cropmark on the OSI series of aerial photographs (2005) and on Google Earth (2011). Two fosses are visible on later Google Earth images as reported by Simon Dowling. Rath (WX018-019----) is c. 80m to the SE.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (14/07/2018)
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 revision: 22 May, 2012
Amended: 4 March, 2020
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.