Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballytegan, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballytegan
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.69474, -6.27432
- SMR number
- WX007-063----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the E edge of a low plateau. The cropmark of a bivallate circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 30m; ext. diam. c. 45m) defined by two fosse features is visible on aerial photographs (MM) 18-20) and digital aerial photographs (WX007-063_1A to _6A) from 2006. There is an entrance gap through both fosses at N, closest to rath (WX007-062----) which is c. 120m distant. It is also visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (2005).
WX007-063----_1.jpg from S
WX007-063----_2.jpg from N
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 March, 2012
Amended: 8 May, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.