Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Arnestown (bantry By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Arnestown (bantry By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.37795, -6.92227
- SMR number
- WX034-075----
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
Located towards the top of a gentle SE-facing slope overlooking a col c. 300m to the S. The cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by two fosse features (int. diam. c. 60m; ext. diam. c. 80m) is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX034-075_1 to _6) taken in 2006.
WX034-075----_1.jpg from SE
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 September, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.