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
- 52.20935, -6.53621
- SMR number
- WX052-045----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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 level landscape. The faint cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) defined by a slight fosse feature is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP: AVK 75) from July 1969. It is also visible on digital aerial photographs (WX047-044_1 to _4) from 2006, but the perimeter SW-N is not present. Rath (WX052-005----) is c. 60m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 18 February, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.