Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymadder, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymadder
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21404, -6.73843
- SMR number
- WX045-054002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 on a slight S-facing slope down to low sea-cliffs and a beach. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP, ALS 64, BDI 81 2, BGF 79 81). It is described locally as a ringfort which was removed c. 1960. It is not visible at ground level in a tilled field. It is also visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (2) 34-36; (3) 2, 3, 5, 6) and the OSI series of aerial photographs (2000), and is even visible on Google Earth (2011). Rath (WX045-054001-) lies c. 200m to the WSW, and rath (WX045-054003-) is c. 120m. to the SE.
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: 25 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.