Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballysallagh,kilderry, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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 LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.