Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
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
- 52.21881, -6.46004
- SMR number
- WX047-135004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity 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
Located on a fairly level landscape and visible on aerial photographs (MM (43) 16-21). The outer fosse of rath (WX047-135001-) at W cuts a ring-ditch (diam. c. 15m) defined by an unbroken fosse feature.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 16 October, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.