Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cotts, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cotts
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21594, -6.42936
- SMR number
- WX048-148----
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 fosse feature is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX048-148 _1, _2) taken in July 2006. There is an entrance gap at SE. The large pit or quarry (WX048-147----) is c. 80m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 7 January, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.