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Ringfort - rath

Coolroe (Shelburne By.), County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Coolroe, 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
Coolroe (Shelburne By.)
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.26097, -6.84877
SMR number
WX045-082----

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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

Located on a fairly steep W-facing slope, with a N-S stream c. 60m to the W. The faint cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 30m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW) defined by a single fosse feature but truncated by a NW-SE section of road at NE is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (9) 20-22). A house had been built just outside it at SW by c. 2013 (digitalglobe).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 23 July, 2013
Amended: 30 March 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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