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Ringfort - rath

Rathnure Upper, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Rathnure Upper, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Rathnure Upper
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.49303, -6.76921
SMR number
WX024-006----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated towards the W edge of the plateau of a NW-SE spur in the foothills of the Blackstairs Mountains with the NW-SE Boro River c. 500m to the SW. It was described in the 1940s as a circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by an earthen bank, with a fosse surviving NE-SE where there was an outer field bank. There were modem entrances at N and S (SMR file). It has been removed since the 1960s and is now visible as a slightly raised, grass-covered area (dims. 52m N-S; 46m E-W; H 0.2-0.3m) area, with traces of a fosse WSW-ENE. It is visible as the cropmark of a bivallate enclosure on aerial photographs (MM (1) 18-21). Rath (WX024-005----) is c. 130m to the NW.

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: Micahel Moore

Date of upload/revision: 25 June, 2012
Amended: 6 May, 2014

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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