Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Horetown North, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Horetown North
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.32561, -6.73513
- SMR number
- WX035-084----
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 on the crest of the NW-facing slope of a small NE-SW spur. The cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by two ditch features (int. diam. c. 40m; ext. diam. c. 60m) and with an entrance gap through both features at NE is visible on aerial photographs (MM (49) 36-37; MM (54) 2).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 October, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.