Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyfad, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfad
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.77505, -6.26940
- SMR number
- WX003-002----
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 a SE-facing slope, near the headwaters of a WNW-ESE stream, which is c. 180m to the SW. This is a very eroded subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 40m E-W; 35m N-S) defined by severely denuded earthen bank (Wth 4m-m; H 0.2-6m). The entrance (Wth c. 7m) is at NW, but there is no visible fosse.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 14 February 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.