Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clone East, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clone East
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54785, -6.36088
- SMR number
- WX021-004----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 in a slight fold towards the bottom of a SE-facing slope with a SW-NE stream c. 370m to the SE. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 62m N–S; 60m E–W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5–8m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2–2.5m) with trees and an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 7m; D 1m). There is an outer bank (Wth 5m; ext. H 1m) at E. The entrance gap at E (Wth 4m) is probably modern or may have been widened, and there are springs in the fosse at E and W. The fosse at SE is truncated by a NE-SW road bank.
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: 15 June, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.