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Ballyhoge
Wexford, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1119
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1119 (1119)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wexford
- Historic county
- Wexford
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballyhoge
- Latitude
- 52.39957
- Longitude
- -6.56622
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.24 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Other (1987)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database WX032-014
- National record
- record WX 032
- Wikidata
- Q31083369
Sources
References
- Moore, M. 1996. Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford. The Stationary Office, Dublin.