Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballybought, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybought
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.33940, -7.51974
- SMR number
- OF009-002----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Today there are no surface remains visible of this levelled monument. Depicted on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map as a triangular shaped enclosure, 110m S of a similar-shaped possible ringfort (OF009-001----). This monument is not depicted on the revised 1908 ed. OS 6-inch map. Described in 1977 a destroyed monument that 'was sited on a gentle low rise in flat pasture land. The site has been ploughed recently' (SMR file 1977).
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.
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.