Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Brownswood, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brownswood
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.46961, -6.54151
- SMR number
- WX026-060----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the crest of the S-facing slope of a broad hill. The faint cropmark of a circular feature (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature and truncated by a N-S field bank at W is visible on aerial photographs (MM (57) 0-2). It is also visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018).
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (2018)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 July, 2012
Amended: 29 April, 2014, 26 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.