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Ringfort - unclassified

Clougheast, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Clougheast, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Clougheast
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.19043, -6.36491
SMR number
WX053-031----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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