Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballybrittas, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrittas
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ashgrove Rath
- Coordinates
- 53.11195, -7.14787
- SMR number
- LA009-009----
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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
Situated in low-lying area. An almost circular levelled enclosure (int. diam. c. 56m E-W). Slight remains of the bank and external fosse survive at W and N. The fosse (max. Wth 8m, max. D 2.5m) is best preserved at E and SE where it is wide and deep. A report dated 1 June 1998 records that the ringfort had been destroyed 'in the last year or so' (SMR file).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In this instance the entry has been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Revised by: Paul Walsh
Revised date of upload: 21 February 2017
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.