Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dunmain, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmain
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.30518, -6.88823
- SMR number
- WX039-083----
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
Situated towards the bottom of a slight SW-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX039-083_1 to _3) taken in 2006. The site is overlain by a NNE-SSW field bank towards the perimeter at E. Rath (WX039-082----) is c. 110m to the NW and rath (WX039-081----) is c. 200m to the NNE.
WX039-083----_1.jpg from SE
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 January, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.