Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballysax Great, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballysax Great
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.12512, -6.82503
- SMR number
- KD028-030----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a hilltop with commanding views of the surrounding countryside. A small slightly raised oval area (25m N-S; 17m E-W) is defined by a scarp with no trace of an associated bank or fosse, although traces of a fosse were visible in 1955 (SMR file, 1972). Visible on a 2010 aerial photo (OSi Orthophoto).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 13 February 2013
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.