Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tomhaggard, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tomhaggard
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21851, -6.49324
- SMR number
- WX047-048----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, It is situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of an enclosure defined by an internal bank feature with an external fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: BDJ 14; BGF 75; BOD 68). The bank forms a subcircular feature but the fosse appears to be subrectangular (ext. dims. c. 40m E-W; c. 35m to c. 45m N-S). It is visible as a low-relief, but indistinct, feature on the ground in a ploughed field. Despite the unusual external form this is probably a ringfort.
The abpve 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 upload/revision: 21 October, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.