Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballycullane, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycullane
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.98841, -6.92318
- SMR number
- KD035-028----
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Shown on 5 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 very gentle SW-facing slope in tillage. Visible on a 1968 aerial photograph (CUCAP AVM 17) as the cropmark of narrow fosse enclosing a circular area (est. max. diam. c. 45m). No visible surface trace survives. Possibly a ringfort site.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 16 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.