Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Ramstown, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ramstown
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Strongbows Tent
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.17507, -6.82644
- SMR number
- WX050-015005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
The promontory fort (WX050-015001-) is located on a sea promontory at the E side of Baginbun Head. A raised rectangular feature (dims. 6.4m x 4.7m; H 0.3m) in the interior that is described as Strongbow’s Tent in gothic lettering on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map may be a hut site (Westropp 1906, 257-8). It is not recognisable now.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 February, 2014
References
Westropp, T.J. 1906 Notes on certain promontory forts in the counties of Waterford and Wexford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 36, 239-58.
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
- Martello towerunder 1 mi
- Military campunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.