Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Coolcliffe, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolcliffe
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.30226, -6.72887
- SMR number
- WX041-070----
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 on a NW-facing slope overlooking the confluence of a NNE-SSW stream with the Corock River which here changes direction from W-E to N-S. A magnetic gradiometer survey (20R0129) over an extensive area identified four ring-ditches and an enclosure on land that was once part of the demesne of Coolcliffe House. This circular feature (diam. c. 11m) is defined by a single fosse with an entrance (Wth c. 2m) at SE, and was outside the demesne. (Nicholls 2020, 11 F 40, Figs 13, 26)
See the attached view from Nicholls (2020, fig. 13)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 30 December 2020
References
Nicholls, J. 2020 Geophysical Survey Report: Proposed Rosspile Solar Farm, Co. Wexford. Licence: 20R0129. Unpublished report, Target Archaeological Geophysics
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.