Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyboggan Upper, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyboggan Upper
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.39329, -6.46515
- SMR number
- WX032-049----
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 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the crest of a W and SW-facing slope. The faint cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a slngle fosse or ditch feature and with with the cropmark of a lane or field bank flanked by two ditches (L c. 30m) approaching from the SW is visible on aerial photographs (MM (11) 12-13). The enclosure (WX032-050----) is c. 100m to the SSE, and may be connected to this enclosure by the cropmark of a field bank.
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: 31 August, 2012
Amended: 21 February, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.