Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Allenstown Little, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Allenstown Little
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.22347, -6.40383
- SMR number
- WX048-144----
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 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure defined by two fosse features (int. dims c. 30m NNW-SSE; c. 15m ENE-WSW; ext. dims c. 60m NNW-SSE; c. 25m ENE-WSW) S-W-N is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX048-144_1 to _5) taken in July 2006. It is bisected by a NNW-SSE field bank with a house and garden on the E side. The ring-ditch (WX048-150----) is c. 50m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 January, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.