Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 52.20836, -6.53422
- SMR number
- WX052-046----
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
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Indicated as a small tree-ring on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is situated on a level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a continuous fosse feature is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP: AVK 75) from July 1969. Rath (WX052-005----) is c. 110m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 18 February, 2014.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.