Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyvergin, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvergin
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.36953, -6.71090
- SMR number
- WX036-004----
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
Marked as a D-shaped embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 35m N-S; c. 20m E-W) truncated by a N-S field bank at E on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a small D-shaped area (dims. c. 17m N-S; c. 14m E-W) on the 1924 ed. It is situated on a slight rise of an E-facing slope with higher ground c. 200m to the N and c. 370m to the SW. This is a D-shaped, grass and scrub-covered area defined by a straight stone clad field bank at E (L 18m) and an earthen bank (Wth 3m; H 0.4-1.2m) S-W-N (dim. 16m E-W). There is no visible fosse or entrance.
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: 5 November, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.