Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Wilkinstown, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Wilkinstown
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.36231, -6.63776
- SMR number
- WX036-020----
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 small rectangular feature on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a circular mound (diam. c. 20m) on the 1924 ed. It is situated on a S-facing slope in a field called the ‘Moat Field’ and is described locally as an earthen mound (diam. c. 10m; H c. 1.5m) that was overgrown with scrub and removed c. 1970. It is not visible at ground level in pasture, but the vegetation mark of a double-ditched enclosure (ext. diam. c. 60m) with an entrance through both features at SW is visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (2000), so the mound was probably a spoil mound.
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: 9 November, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.