Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Barrystown, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrystown
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.24730, -6.74127
- SMR number
- WX045-087----
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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
Situated at the crest of a slight S-facing slope, with a small NE-SW stream c. 90m to the SE. The cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (int. diam. c. 25m; ext. diam. c. 40m) defined by two narrow fosse features that are truncated by a NE-SW field bank towards the perimeter at NW is visible on aerial photographs (WX045-087_1, _2).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 22 July, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.