Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynakill (cloncurry Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakill (cloncurry Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41236, -6.77113
- SMR number
- KD004-035----
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
On level pasture at the W leading-edge of a broad terrace on the W slopes of a moderately steep-sided ridge. A poorly preserved circular area (int. diam. 38m) is defined by a low, broad, inner earthen bank (Wth 4-5.6m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3m) and by a shallow, outer fosse (Wth 1.8-2.4m; D 0.1-0.3m) NNE-S-NW. A modern field bank truncates the N limits which are also disturbed at NW by a modern, deep, rectangular depression (dims. L 14m E-W; Wth 5m; D 2m) running W from the enclosing elements. The site is visible on an aerial photograph (Holton 1985, Fig. 48; SMR file). Archaeological testing (Licence no. 02E0149: www.excavations.ie), carried out as part of the Kinnegad-Enfield-Kilcock Bypass (Contract 3), 50m to the S of the monument revealed no archaeological deposits.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - hollow-wayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.