Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyfane, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfane
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.19891, -6.37239
- SMR number
- WX053-084----
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 slight E-facing slope. The cropmark of a bivallate circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 30m; ext. diam. c. 45m) is visible on aerial photographs (OPWAP, 26981, 15-18). A wide drain or stream bed (Wth c. 5m) approaches from the S, enters the inner fosse feature which it follows around to the NW, and exits in a NW direction. Entrances cannot be identified.
The abpve description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 21 March 2014
Nearby in the register
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 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.