Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clougheast, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clougheast
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.19045, -6.36695
- SMR number
- WX053-091----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight N-facing slope. The cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 50m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (28) 11-14) and on digital aerial photographs (WX053-091_1 to _3) taken in 2006. The straight side is at S parallel with a field bank which is c. 10m distant. No entrance is visible. The rath (WX053-031----) is c. 100m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 March, 2104
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.