Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyshane, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyshane
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.81626, -6.59695
- SMR number
- CW009-033----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Monument No. HM00323, this monument was entered in the Register of Historic Monuments on the 02 March 1983. D-shaped area defined by low bank. Shape and lack of visible evidence of entrance and fosse are probably because of farming activities in vicinity of monument (est original diam. c. 30m).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.