Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Linziestown, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Linziestown
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21877, -6.45962
- SMR number
- WX047-135001-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 level landscape. The cropmark of a bivallate enclosure is is visible on aerial photographs (MM (43) 16-21). The inner enclosure (diam. c. 30m) is defined by a fosse feature (Wth c. 3m) that may be open to the SE. The outer enclosure (int. diam. c. 50m) is defined by a substantial fosse feature (Wth c. 3-5m) that has a distinct opening (Wth c. 5m) at SE. At the centre of the inner enclosure there is a ring-ditch (diam. c. 8m) that is open to the N. It is conjoined with a second ring-ditch (diam. c. 8m) to the SE that is open to the SE and may be incorporating the entrance to the inner enclosure. The outer fosse at W cuts another ring-ditch (diam. c. 15m) defined by an unbroken fosse feature. About 10m N of the outer fosse at N there is another ring-ditch (diam. c. 10m), whose defining fosse feature appears to be continuous. The surrounding area is covered in the cropmarks of single drains creating rectangular fields (dims c. 20m x c. 50m to c. 50m x c. 50m) covering an area of c. 3 ha. The drains appear to overlie the enclosures and ring-ditches, and no breaks are visible in these drains that probably represent an 18th century field system.
See the attached aerial view
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 October, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.