Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Garraun Lower, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraun Lower
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.49127, -6.73606
- SMR number
- WX024-011----
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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 D shaped embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 90m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE) that appears to have been truncated by a NE-SW field bank at NW on the1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a S-facing slope at the SE end of a NW-SE ridge. This is a subrectangular dished area (dim. c. 60m NW-SE; c. 60m NE-SW) planted in a root crop with a curve in the field bank (C c. 60m) at 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: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 25 June, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.