Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Blackstoops, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blackstoops
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51370, -6.55205
- SMR number
- WX020-122----
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 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at outer edge of a shelf and at the crest of a slope down to the E and S to a NNE-SSW section of the River Slaney which is c. 120m to the E. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 38nm NE-SW) defined by a single fosse feature that is only traceable SSW-N-E is visible only on Goole Earth (14/07/2018). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 18 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.