Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Ballyphilip, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyphilip
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.00523, -7.76261
- SMR number
- OF043-013----
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
51m E-W ) enclosed by two earthen banks with wide flat bottomed intervening fosse (Wth 5m; ext. D 0.7m) which was water filled at time of visit and possible entrance feature (Wth 3m) at N end of W side. The inner bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.7m) is best preserved while the fosse and outer bank (Wth 3m) are both destroyed from W through N to NE.
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
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.