Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Balrickard, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balrickard
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57071, -6.23386
- SMR number
- DU004-016----
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Shown on 5 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
Located on a slight rise under pasture beside townland boundary. Historic 6 inch map show quarry in the same field. An aerial photograph taken in 1972 (FSI 4.510/509) shows a circular cropmark (diam. c. 22m) of a levelled enclosure. Not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 31 October 2014
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.