Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolerin South, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolerin South
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.30300, -6.94585
- SMR number
- WX039-073----
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 a slight S-facing slope with a small NE-SW stream c. 100m to the SE. The cropmark of a bivallate subcircular enclosure (int. dims c. 45m x c. 50m; ext. diam. c. 60m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (29) 22-5). It is also visible on digital aerial photographs (WX039-073_1 to _6). Rath (WX039-087----) is c. 260m to the NNE.
WX039-073----_1.jpg from W
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: 24 January, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.