Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynakill Big, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakill Big
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.36956, -7.57228
- SMR number
- OF002-033----
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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 flat pasture in undulating countryside. Roughly circular raised platform (dims. 32m N-S; ext. H 0.5m) enclosed by a poorly preserved low bank which in some places has been reduced to a scarp with possible entrance gap (Wth 3m) at E.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.