Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballycarney, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycarney
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.58176, -6.56456
- SMR number
- WX015-079----
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
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: 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 at the crest of the W-facing slope of the valley of the River Slaney with the stream c. 550m to the E and a small E-W stream is c. 170m to the N. The cropmark of an enclosure (int. diam. c. 65m) defined by two fosse features was recorded in the summer of 2018 by Barry Lacey using a drone-mounted camera. The inner bank is incorporated in a field bank NW-E-SE, and there may be an entrance through both fosses at W (max. ext. diam. c. 80m). It is also visible on OSI ortho images.
See the attached image courtesy of Barry Lacey
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 August, 2018
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.