Ringfort - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

A hachured feature (diam. c. 30m) is marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and it is situated on a gentle N-facing slope. A rath was listed at Clougheast by Mac Leighim (1920, 136-7) and it was described in 1940 as a slightly raised area (diam. c. 80 feet (c. 25m) that was known locally as a rath (OSFM). It was removed in the 1980s. An area of stunted growth (diam. c. 20m) is visible in a cereal crop at ground level, and it is visible as a similar feature on aerial photographs (MM (28) 11-14), but it cannot be distinguished on digital aerial photographs (WX053-091_1 to _3) from 2006. Rath (WX053-091----) is c. 100m to the W, and rath (WX053-092----) is c. 130m to the SE.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload/revision: 21 March, 2014

References

OSFM. Ordnance Survey Field Memorandums. A collection of survey notes and descriptions of monuments on pro-forma sheets compiled by Ordnance Survey field staff in the course of the 1:2500 map revision of various counties, mostly dating from 1931 – early 1960s. These unpublished manuscripts form part of the records of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland, National Monuments Service Archive, Dublin.

Mac Leighim 1920 A survey of the ancient things in Lady's Island district. The Past, Vol. 1, 133-40.