Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

Embanked enclosure — Ballyrahan

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
View what I want to do
Embanked enclosure — Ballyrahan
Photo: Credit not shown in the picture search · Open the original picture · Rights wording not checked; contact us if this picture should be removed · Report the wrong picture · If this is your picture and you want it taken down, email me.
Know this place?

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

Marked as circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) at the SW edge of a small wood (dims c. 100m NE-SW; c. 50m NW-SE) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a short E-W ridge at the NW base of Creagh Hill. No feature is visible at ground level but the cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature with an entrance gap at NE is visible on aerial photographs (MM (53) 13-17) located c. 30m to the NE and this is probably the monument. Rath (WX006-059002-) is immediately to the N and rath (WX006-085----) is c. 90m to the NW. The above 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: 1 March 2012 Amended: 8 May, 2014

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.