Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballagh (bantry By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballagh (bantry By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41186, -6.77353
- SMR number
- WX030-087----
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
Located on a SE-facing slope. The cropmark of an oval enclosure (dims. c. 30m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW) defined by a single fosse feature with no entrance gap is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX030-087_1 to _4) taken in 2006. It is also partly visible as a vegetation mark on a series of OSI aerial photographs (2000).
WX030-087----_1.jpg. from N
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 August, 2012
Amended: 4 April, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 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.