Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhighland, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhighland
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50492, -6.72990
- SMR number
- WX019-030----
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
A curving field bank (C c. 50m ) SW-W-NE marked on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map suggests the presence of an enclosure located on a SW-facing slope. The cropmark of a bivallate enclosure (max. ext. diam. c. 70m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (17) 18-19) and visible as a vegeatation change of an earthen bank on Google Earth (2011; 14/07/2018).
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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.