Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Balliniry, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balliniry
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.24880, -6.85801
- SMR number
- WX045-017----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid 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
Situated towards the top of a gentle E-facing slope. This is a slightly raised and overgrown circular area (diam. 26m N-S) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 4m at E to 10m at W; int. D 1.3-1.9m; ext. D 1.2m at S to 2m at W). There is no visible entrance, or clear evidence of an inner bank, and the wide fosse SW-NW may be due to quarrying of the outer edge of the fosse.
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: 22 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.