Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynamullagh, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamullagh
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.37141, -6.90160
- SMR number
- KD008-010----
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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 a gentle SE-facing slope in tillage. A slightly raised, sub circular area (int diams. 27m E-W; 25m N-S) is defined by an inner earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.8m) E-S, and elsewhere by a scarp (H 2.1m), outside of which runs a wide, U-shaped fosse (Wth 7m), and a second, outer, earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.75m), which is overlain by field-cleared material at WSW. The inner enclosing element is densely overgrown with blackthorn and briar NE-E-SE. A short arc of lush vegetation growth at NW may indicate the line of a second, outer fosse, which is not visible elsewhere at ground level.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.