Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockhowlin, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockhowlin
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21214, -6.44593
- SMR number
- WX048-130002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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 on a fairly level landscape with a small N-S stream c. 130m to the E. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photograph (ASIAP (4) 13) and digital aerial photographs (WX048-130_2, _3, _4, _6) taken in 2006. It is also visible on the OSi series of aerial photographs (2000).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 8 January, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.