Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhaddock, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhaddock
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57907, -6.45175
- SMR number
- WX015-085----
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a fairly level landscape with a small N-S section of a stream c. 30m to the W. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m E-W; c. 33m N-S) defined by a fosse is visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). There is an entrance gap (Wth c. 7m) at N. It was first reported by Simon Dowling and was also noted by Jean Charles Caillere.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 3 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Charcoal-making siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.