Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Rathnure Lower, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathnure Lower
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.49218, -6.76137
- SMR number
- WX024-007----
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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 the1839 (diam. c. 50m) and 1925 (diam. c. 40m) eds of the OS 6 inch map. Situated on the plateau of a NW-SE spur in the foothills of the Blackstairs Mountains with the source of a small N-S stream c. 170m to the SE. The stream joins the NW-SE Boro River c. 500m further S. This is a slightly dished area (diam. c. 42m N-S; c. 39m E-W) in a harvested cereal crop, with a curve in a field bank to the W (C 34m).
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: 25 June, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.