Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyboher, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyboher
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.22020, -6.45476
- SMR number
- WX047-058----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity 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 on a level landscape. The cropmark of a circular bivallate enclosure with a wide outer and narrow inner fosse is visible on aerial photographs (MM (42) 30-1; (43) 6-14) and on digital aerial photographs (WX047-057_1 to _ 11). The central area (diam. c. 30m) is defined by a very slight feature compared to the outer fosse feature (int. diam. c. 50m) that is very wide (Wth up to c. 10m). It is visible on the ground as a low relief raised and dished area (diam. c. 50m) that is probably an eroded ringfort with a large hut-site at the centre.
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.
Date of upload/revision: 11 October, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.