Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyrahan, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyrahan
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.68411, -6.33135
- SMR number
- WX006-059002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 short E-W ridge at the NW base of Creagh Hill. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (53) 13-17). Enclosure (WX006-059001-) is immediately to the S, and enclosure (WX006-085----) is c. 80m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 1 March, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.