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Ringfort - rath

Quitchery Little, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Quitchery Little, 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
Quitchery Little
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.26164, -6.69666
SMR number
WX046-088----

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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 slight E-facing slope. The faint cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature that is slightly truncated by a NE-SW farm lane at S is visible on aerial photographs (MM (27) 34-5). A magnetic gradiometer survey (22R0066) by G. Dowling (2022) confirms the existence of the rath fosse (Wth c. 3m), although the feature is largely absent E-S. A narrow inner trench follows the line of the fosse SW-NW c. 5m inside its inner edge. A ditch extends NE from the fosse (L c. 40m) connecting with NW-SE ditches and could be part of a field system that is contemporary with the rath. Another ditch extending N from the fosse at NW might also run over the area of the bank at W be part of a later field system. Other N-S ditches were recorded further W c. 30-45m apart and could be part of the same system.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revision: 19 August, 2013
Amended: 22 March 2022

References

Dowling, G. 2022 Geophysical Survey Report, Quitchery Little, Co. Wexford. Licence: 22R0066. Unpublished report, Author

Nearby in the register

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

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