Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathnure Upper, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathnure Upper
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.50110, -6.75667
- SMR number
- WX018-030----
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
Marked as a circular enclosure on the 1839 (ext. diam. c. 40m) and 1925 (ext. diam. c. 50m) eds of the OS 6-inch map and visible as a cropmark enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a fosse feature with an entance gap at E on aerial photographs (MM (17) 19–20, 22). It is situated towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope with a NW-SE stream c. 60m to the NE. Nothing is visible at ground level in a cereal crop.
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.