Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hillfort
Ballinkillin, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinkillin
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.65302, -6.93329
- SMR number
- CW019-027----
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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
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
Subcircular area on summit of hill enclosed by double bank with intervening ditch, best preserved at SE, elsewhere defined by scarp lying outside modern field wall (max. H of scarp at WNW 3m; W-S graded and reseeded; not visible at NE). Berm at top of scarp is flat (Wth c. 2.5m). Level berm also exists in places at foot of scarp. Interior has been graded. Slight lynchet has formed upslope of field wall giving impression of slight scarp and bank. (max. dims. c 267m NW-SE x 225m NE-SW, max. Wth of double bank c 13m.) (Carloviana 1986, 8-9)
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Rock art (present location)under 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.