Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhighland, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhighland
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.51940, -6.71700
- SMR number
- WX019-012----
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
Marked only on the 1924 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped hachured feature truncated by a NW-SE field bank, it is located in the bottom of a NW-SE valley close to the headwaters of a stream, which is c. 60m to the NE. It was described as a circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by an earthen bank with an external fosse that was removed in 1975 (SMR file). No feature is visible at ground level in pasture.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 22 May, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.