Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Tellarought, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tellarought
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.34063, -6.89248
- SMR number
- WX034-038----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30-35m) only on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in a shallow N-S valley. This is a dished subrectangular and grass-covered area (dim. c. 36m NW-SE) defined by a widely spread and grassed 'bank' (Wth c. 15m) W-N-S. This feature may be related to quarrying or the provision of bank material for the headwaters of a N-S stream just to the E, but the site was probably a ringfort.
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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.