Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballydaniel, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydaniel
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.62507, -6.39382
- SMR number
- WX011-041----
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight S-facing slope. The cropmark of a bivallate circular enclosure defined by a wider inner and slighter outer fosse features (max. ext. diam. c. 55m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (14) 5–7, 23). There is an entrance gap through the inner fosse feature at SE and the site is overlain by a NE-SW field bank NW of its centre.
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.
Date of upload/revision: 12 April, 2012
Amended: 6 May, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.