Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyconor Big, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyconor Big
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.23424, -6.36347
- SMR number
- WX048-145----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity 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 on a fairly level landscape with a small N-S stream c. 200m to the W. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) is visible on the E side of a N-S field bank on digital aerial photographs (WX048-125_1, _2) taken in July, 2006. It is defined by a single fosse feature that may have an entrance at NE. The tower house (WX048-033001-) is c. 200m to the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 January, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- House - 16th centuryunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.