Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhagan, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhagan
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.33885, -6.97711
- SMR number
- KD008-015----
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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, wet, rushy pasture. A poorly preserved circular area (int. diam. 53m) is defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 1.9m at S-4.6m at W; int. H 0.2-0.6m; ext. H 0.5m) SE-W-NE, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.6m) along the E, and by a shallow wet, rush-filled, outer fosse (Wth. 2m at S- 5m at W) SE-W-NW. A heavily poached gap (Wth 2m) at NW may be the original entrance. The level interior is wet and rush-covered. Although the siting is atypical, the morphology suggests it is a ringfort.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyard1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.