Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynakill (ballynadrumny Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakill (ballynadrumny Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.44738, -6.97547
- SMR number
- KD001-002----
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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
In gently undulating, mixed tillage and pasture, c. 130m S of the river Boyne. A slightly raised subcircular area (int. diams. 62m E-W; 56m N-S) is defined by an inner scarp (H 0.6m at WSW-1.7m at NNE), a fosse (av. D 1.6m; Wth 2.8m at WSW-7.2m at NNE), an earthen bank (Wth 6m at NNE-8m at WSW; int H 1.5m; ext H 2.3m), and a second, outer fosse (D 0.5m at NNE-1.5m at WSW; Wth 3m at NNE-14m at WSW where it incorporates a natural depression). There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 4m; L 9m) at NE. The enclosing elements are overgrown with briar, thorn and deciduous trees while the level interior is under pasture.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackway1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrow1 mi
- Mound1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.