Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynacarrig, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacarrig
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.39846, -6.53738
- SMR number
- WX032-054----
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 on the W-facing slope of an E-W spur with small E-W streams c. 170-200m to the N and S, and the N-S River Slaney is c. 650m to the W. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25-30m) defined by a single fosse feature that is partly truncated by a NE-SW field bank at SE is visible on aerial photographs (MM (51) 23, 24).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
31 August, 2012
Amended: 2 May, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.