Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Cooloughter, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooloughter
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- N ot indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.24249, -6.49827
- SMR number
- WX047-131----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid 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 at the crest of a S-facing slope. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (31) 31, 33; (49) 20, 21). The burnt spread (WX047-131002-) is c. 90m to the SW and the excavated features (WX047-131001-) are c. 170m to the NW.
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 upload/revision: 14 October, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Windmillunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.