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Ramstown
Wexford, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1048
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1048 (1048)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wexford
- Historic county
- Wexford
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ramstown
- Latitude
- 52.17495
- Longitude
- -6.82640
- Altitude
- 3 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 8.3 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.6 ha, 8.3 ha
- Footprint
- 8.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1841); 1st Identified Written Reference (1906); Earthwork Survey (1989); Earthwork Survey (2003)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database WX050-015001
- National record
- record WX 050
- Wikidata
- Q31083293
Sources
References
- Moore, M. 1996. Archaeological inventory of County Waterford, 64-8. The stationary Office, Dublin.
- Westropp, T. J. 1906. Notes on certain Promontory Forts in the counties of Waterford and Wexford. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 36 (3), 239-25.