Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballykilty Upper, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykilty Upper
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.77343, -6.22223
- SMR number
- WX003-006----
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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) incorporating a NE-SW field bank at NW and a NW-SE stream and county boundary with Co. Wicklow at NE on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated in a low-lying area, but iis not visible in pasture at ground level.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.