Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyseskin, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyseskin
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21214, -6.54324
- SMR number
- WX047-042----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity 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 on a broad, low hill. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature and bisected by a NW-SE field bank is visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: AVK 72; AVK 74) taken in July 1968. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Archaeological testing (21E0784) by M. McCarthy immediately to the S at the closest point produced no related material (excavations.ie 2021:229).
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: 14 October, 2013
Amended: 10 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Windmillunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.