Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballylane West, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylane West
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.35230, -6.91739
- SMR number
- WX034-076----
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 in the bottom of an enclosed valley (dims. c. 1 km NW-SE; c. 600m NE-SW) at its NW end. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse-feature with a break at SW is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX034-076_1 to _4) taken in 2006.
WX034-076----_1.jpg from SE
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 September, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.