Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballyvass, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvass
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.95001, -6.85547
- SMR number
- KD038-013----
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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
Aerial photograph (CUCAP AVL 95) shows a cropmark of a fosse of circular enclosure (est. max diam. c. 25m). Either a ring-barrow or ringfort site.
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.