Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballytarsna (shelburne By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballytarsna (shelburne By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.28702, -6.86053
- SMR number
- WX040-030----
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 circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is located at the bottom of a slight W-facing slope, with a N-S stream c. 120m to the W. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 31m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by the remains of a fosse (at S: Wth 11m; int. D 0.9m) NNE-S-WSW. The perimeter is truncated by a N-S field bank at W and an E-W field bank at N. There is no visible entrance or internal features but the fosse is visible as a cropmark feature NNE-S-WSW on aerial photographs (MM (30) 9-11).
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: 18 February, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - hall-houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.