Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Fisherstown, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fisherstown
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.31074, -6.97852
- SMR number
- WX039-078001-
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 bottom of a NE-facing slope with the head of a SE-NW inlet of the tidal River Nore/Barrow c. 100m to the NE. A segment of a bank (Wth 4m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 5m) survives SSE-SW with a souterrain just inside the line of the bank at W. The outline of the enclosure cannot be identified elsewhere. The souterrain is an oval chamber (dims 3.2m NE-SW; 1.2-1.9m NW-SE) and the long walls corbel in to a line of lintels on the long axis. The SW end has collapsed and the maximum H (1.3m) is achieved at the NE end where the present entrance was created by the removal of a lintel in ploughing. There is a lintelled but blocked entrance (Wth 0.5m; visible H 0.4m) at the NE end of the chamber, which is now closed.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 January, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.