Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballysaxhills, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballysaxhills
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11937, -6.79894
- SMR number
- KD028-046----
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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
Shown in this general area on Taylor's 1783 Map of County Kildare as small circular feature, possibly a ringfort. Area now occupied by cottages and gardens. No visible surface traces survive.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 19 February 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.