Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballycrystal, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycrystal
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.58660, -6.72239
- SMR number
- WX014-005----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a NW-SE ridge with NW-SE streams c. 350m to the E and c. 400m to the W. Marked as circular enclosure (diam. c. 35-40m) just N of Ballycrystal House on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Nothing is visible at ground level. Archaeological testing (07E0050) conducted within 50m S-W failed to produce any related material (McLoughlin 2010)
The abpve 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: 26 April, 2012
References
McLoughlin, C. 2010 Ballycrystal. No archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007. Summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 543, No. 1936. Wordwell, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.