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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid 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).
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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.