Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyroe (Maher), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyroe (Maher)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.70529, -7.42346
- SMR number
- KK013-048----
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the S side of a NW-SE valley, with land rising slightly up to flat terrace below the crest of hills to the S and SW, in pasture. There are good views along and across the valley to the N, E and W. A small stream runs NE-SW past NW sector. A roughly circular area (int. diam. c. 34m) enclosed by a low, wide earthen bank (int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H 0.9-1.2m; Wth 2m) and traces of external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.3m), except at NW where there is a flat external berm (Wth 6m) which drops to the stream. There is an entrance (Wth 2.5m) in the downslope NE quadrant. In the SW sector the bank has been incorporated in a field boundary which runs NW-SE along the SW edge of the monument.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 20 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.