Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballytrent, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballytrent
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21864, -6.34398
- SMR number
- WX048-049001-
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 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the E edge of a gently rolling landscape with the ground sloping down to the sea shore c. 300m to the SE. There was reputed to be an underground cave or souterrain that was discovered in 1908 at the centre of the large enclosure (WX048-049----) (SMR file). It is not evident now.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 January, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.