Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Churchtown (Forth By., Tacumshin ED), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchtown (Forth By., Tacumshin ED)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.20488, -6.43865
- SMR number
- WX053-090----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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 broad rise with the valley of a small N-S stream c. 150m to the W. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a slight fosse feature W-N-SE is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX053-090_1 to _4) from 2004.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 March, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.