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Ringfort - rath

Slaght, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Slaght, 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
Slaght
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.35975, -6.93258
SMR number
WX034-016----

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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 at the bottom of a steep SW-facing slope at the junction with a more gentle incline and at the headwaters of a small SE-NW stream. It is also just below a slight col which is c. 200m to the SE between Ballylane Hill c. 650m to the NNE and a smaller hill c. 350m to the SW. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 35.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank and hedge which is best presernved at N (Wth 7m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H 1.6m), declining towards the S (Wth 5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m). There is no visible fosse but the perimeter is circumvented by a field bank WNW-ENE with a laneway (Wth 5.5m) between. The entrance (Wth 2.7m) is at ESE.

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: 14 September, 2012

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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