Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Portersgate, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portersgate
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.15145, -6.89668
- SMR number
- WX054-013----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the level, low-lying and narrow part (L c. 4.5km NE-SW; Wth c. 600m-1.5km NW-SE) of Hook peninsula. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (2) 8-11). No entrance is visible.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 31 March, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.