Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballymount, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymount
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05573, -6.77265
- SMR number
- KD032-052----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Aerial photograph (GB89.AF.31) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure (approx. diam. 30m) defined by a fosse with entrance gap at E and second gap at SSW. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1989 by Dr. Gillian Barrett.
See attached images taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018
Compiled by: Gillian Barrett
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 12 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ceremonial enclosureunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.