Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Inch (ballaghkeen By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inch (ballaghkeen By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.44407, -6.34463
- SMR number
- WX027-046----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked as a circular enclosure with a wide bank or two banks (ext. diam. c. 75m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a quarry (diam. c. 50m) on the 1924 ed. It is situated on a prominent W-E spur with a NW-SE stream c. 200m to the N, and the sea-shore is c. 1.9km to the SE. This is a raised grass and scrub-covered D-shaped area (dims of top 40m N-S; 26m E-W) occupying the top of a hillock, with an earthen bank (Wth 3m; H 0.5m), perhaps modern, at the straight E side and scarps (H 3-4m) elsewhere. The perimeter at NW has been quarried. The enclosure has been identified as the 'Ardladhru' of Irish mythology (Sexton 1925).
The following 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: 17 July 2012
References
Sexton, P. 1925 Some associations – Pagan and Christian – of a sea-side parish. The Past 3, 1925, 47-55.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.