Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Ring (forth By., Tacumshin Ed), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ring (forth By., Tacumshin Ed)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21844, -6.44345
- SMR number
- WX048-141002-
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
Situated on a fairly level, low-lying, landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a single continuous fosse feature (Wth c. 3m) is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (4), 7, 8, 14). It is conjoined with the ring-ditch (WX048-141001-), which is immediately to the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 8 January, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.