Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Ballowen Or Ramsfort Park, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballowen Or Ramsfort Park
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.69052, -6.29214
- SMR number
- WX007-018----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Described as 'Site of Grave Yard' in italic script on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is depicted faintly as an oval area (dims. c. 40m E-W; c. 25m N-S), which was described by J. O' Donovan c. 1840 as destroyed and forgotton (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 11). Situated at the crest of a slight S-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. There are local traditions of the graveyard, but no feature is visible at ground level in pasture. A holy well (WX007-018----) is located c. 200m to the SSE.
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
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1933 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of County Wexford, collected during progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Typescript in 2 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.