Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Morriscastle, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Morriscastle
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51631, -6.26094
- SMR number
- WX022-018----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50-55m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a fairly level landscape with a small W-E stream c. 330m to the N and the headwaters of a small NNW-SSE stream c. 280m to the SW. This is a slightly raised subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 39m N–S; 34m E–W) defined by a scarp (H c. 0.5m) with a fosse suggested by lusher vegetation (Wth 2–3m) SE–SW and NW–NE. It is truncated slightly by a N-S farm road at W. It can be seen a a vegetation mark on the OSI series of aerial photographs (2005).
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: 18 June, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.