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Ringfort - rath

Ballynakill (Cloncurry ED), County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballynakill, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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