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Ringfort - rath

Kilbraney, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Kilbraney, 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
Kilbraney
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclsoure
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.33414, -6.82269
SMR number
WX035-050----

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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

Marked as a bivallate embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 65-70m) circumscribed by farm lanes NE-S-W on the 1839 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight S-facing slope. This is a raised circular, scrub-covered area (diam. 43m E-W) defined by an eroded earthen bank (at N: Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.4m) and external fosse (at N: Wth of top 4m; D 0.3m) NW-NE that is altered (Wth 2.5m at E to 6.5m at W; int. H 0.7-0.8m; ext. H 1.2-1.4m) by a retaining wall and by a surrounding road NE-S-NW. There is no visible entrance. The remaining fosse NW-NE was removed between 2005 and 2012 (OSI images).

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: 15 October, 2012
Amended: 25 June 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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