Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Milltown (shelburne By., Kilmokea Ed), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown (shelburne By., Kilmokea Ed)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.30517, -6.94431
- SMR number
- WX039-087----
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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 SE-facing slope with a NE-SW stream c. 300m to the SE. The cropmark of a circular bivallate enclosure (int. diam. c. 30m; ext. diam. c. 45m) is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX039-087_1 to _4) taken in 2006. Rath (WX039-073----) is c. 260m to the SSW. Archaeological monitoring (15E0422) in Area 3 of a gas pipe under the road immediately to the N identified the outer ditch (Wth of top 4.5-6m; D 0.85-1m) at two points. There were silts at the bottom beneath what is probably bank material pushed into the ditch. No dating material was recovered. (Sutton 2018; excavations.ie 2015:422)
WX039-087----_1.jpg from E
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 29 January, 2013
Amended: 19 October 2020
References
Sutton, B. 2018 Archaeological monitoring along the Wexford feeder main. Areas 1-13. Licence No. 15E0412. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.