Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyloughan, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyloughan
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.69552, -6.26189
- SMR number
- WX007-021----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is situated towards the bottom of a SW-facing slope of Ask Hill. It is visible as a cropmark enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature on aerial photograph (CUCAP: AVJ 90) and as a curve in the surviving field bank and townland boundary with Ask W-N (C 34m). The fosse is also visible on aerial photographs (MM (53) 23, 24, 30), as is a rectangular annexe (dims c. 20m N-S; c. 20m E-W) defined by the cropmarks of fosse features attached to the perimeter of the rath at S.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.