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Ring-ditch

Coolcliffe, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ring-ditch, Coolcliffe, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Coolcliffe
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.29900, -6.73206
SMR number
WX041-074----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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 on land that was once part of the demesne of Coolcliffe House. This circular feature (diam. c. 12m) is defined by a single fosse with small breaks at W (Wth c. 2m) and E (Wth c. 1m) and could be represented as a small tree-ring on the 1839 edition of the OS 6-inch map. (Nicholls 2020, 11 F 43, Figs 13, 26)

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 Unpublished report, Target Archaeological Geophysics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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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