Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinglin, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinglin
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.69923, -6.24035
- SMR number
- WX007-008----
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) only on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a wide col or low E-W ridge (L c. 1km E-W) between Ask Hill and Tara Hill, the summits of which are c. 900m and 1km to the W and E respectively. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 32m) defined by a slight scarp, with slight remains of a fosse (Wth of top 10m) SE–NW. It is visible as a vegetation mark of a wide fosse feature on aerial photographs (MM (53) 31-33).
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: 15 March 2012
Amended: 8 May, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Urn burialunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.