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
- 52.68481, -6.33240
- SMR number
- WX006-085----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a low E-W spur with slight E-W valleys to the N and S and the N-S stream of the Bann River c. 700m to the W. The cropmark of a circular area (dim. c. 30m E-W) is partially visible on aerial photographs (MM (53) 13-17) on the S side of a WNW-ESE field bank. Enclosures (WX006-059001-; WX006-059002-) are c. 80-100m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 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.