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Ringfort - rath

Knockduff (Shelmaliere East By., Artramon ED), County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Knockduff, 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
Knockduff (Shelmaliere East By., Artramon ED)
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.41083, -6.51025
SMR number
WX032-045----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1811 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1811 · 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 on a level low-lying landscape. The faint cropmark of a circular feature (diam. c. 30m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (11) 26-8) from c. 1990, but it was very uncertain. In July 2018 a drone-mounted camera operated by Páid Bates (Skypix Aerial Works) captured a perfect image of a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 35m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) defined by a single fosse feature with the straight side at SE and a possible entrance gap at NW. Rath (WX032-045001-) is immediately to the SW on the other side of an E-W field bank, now removed but the drains on either side are visible.

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.

See the attached aerial view (front) taken from N courtesy of Skypix Aerial Works

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revision: 1 January, 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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