Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Ballyraine Middle, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyraine Middle
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.80269, -6.18460
- SMR number
- WI040-028----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on fairly level ground c. 400m W of Ballyraine House. A large square enclosure shown on the 1909 OS 6-inch map (max. dims. c. 100m x 100m). It is described by Price (1936, 46) as having an earthen bank with stone facing, and a deep wide fosse, fed by a stream. It is shown on the first edition OS 6-inch map with a large house towards the E side, marked 'Site of a Building' (WI040-028001-). It was destroyed in 1971 (Information T. Barry; OPW and NMI Correspondence).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 103/1940).
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- Furnaceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.