Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathmore, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmore
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.22675, -6.38013
- SMR number
- WX048-029----
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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 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a fairly level landscape. An enclosure is marked as an arc of a bank (C c. 40m) NW-NE on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It was described as a large ringfort (MacLeighim 1920, 137) but only part of the bank (H c. 1.5m) remained (OSFM 1940). It is not visible at ground level in a cereal crop but it can be seen as a cropmark enclosure (diam; c. 60m) on aerial photographs (MM (10) 22-4).
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: 8 January 2014
References
OSFM. Ordnance Survey Field Memorandums. A collection of survey notes and descriptions of monuments on pro-forma sheets compiled by Ordnance Survey field staff in the course of the 1:2500 map revision of various counties, mostly dating from 1931 – early 1960s. These unpublished manuscripts form part of the records of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland, National Monuments Service Archive, Dublin.
Mac Leighim 1920 A survey of the ancient things in Lady's Island district. The Past, Vol. 1, 133-40.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Churchyardunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.