Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballask (bargy By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballask (bargy By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.20741, -6.55139
- SMR number
- WX052-047001-
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 cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature with an entrance gap at E is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX052 047001_1A to _4A). It contains a ring-ditch (WX052-047002-) (diam. c. 5m) inside the perimeter at NNE. Ring ditch (WX052-047003-) is c. 50m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 03 March 2010
Amended: 18 February, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.