Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinacoola (gorey By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinacoola (gorey By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67790, -6.36096
- SMR number
- WX006-094----
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
Located on a gentle W-facing slope with a small NE-SW stream c. 40m to the N. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature is only visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). It has an entrance gap (Wth c. 4m) at NE, and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 17 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Battlefield1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Church1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.