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Ringfort - rath

Ballysallagh,Kilderry, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballysallagh, Kilderry, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballysallagh,Kilderry
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.68849, -7.16877
SMR number
KK015-025----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the E side of a small valley running N-S, in wet grassland. E of the valley the land rises fairly steeply to highlands and to W it rises gently to rolling grasslands. The fields are a mixture of reclaimed and unreclaimed grassland. There are good views in all directions. An oval ringfort (diam. 38m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a flat-topped bank (Wth 2m at crest, overall 4.25m; int. H c. 0.5m; ext. H 1-2.3m) and a steep-sided, water-filled fosse (Wth 2m; 0.55-0.7m). The interior is flat and has tree roots and thorny scrub in the N half. There is an entrance (Wth 3m) in the N quadrant with a steeply sloping causeway across the fosse. There is also a break (Wth 3m) in the bank in the S quadrant but no corresponding causeway.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 2 March 2016

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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