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Ringfort - rath

Reedstown, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Reedstown, 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
Reedstown
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.19494, -6.40298
SMR number
WX053-086003-

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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

Situated on a slight NE-SW rise between the W shore of Lady’s Island Lough and a small inlet of the lake at W. The cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 15m E-W) defined by a single ditch feature S-W-N is visible on aerial photographs (MM (44) 19-21). It is truncated by a NNW-SSE field bank at E and is not visible on the E side of this feature. The cropmark of a wide drain extends W from the perimeter towards the edge of the inlet of Lady’s Island Lake, which is c. 100m distant. Rath (WX053-086002-) is c. 140m to the S.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 25 March, 2014

Nearby in the register

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

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