Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballybrack, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrack
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.93425, -7.88163
- SMR number
- OF045-010----
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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
Situated on E facing slope of rising ground in undulating countryside. Only W half of site survives consisting of two earth and stone banks with wide intervening fosse (Wth 5m) and causeway entrance at S. Inner bank (Wth 3.5m; ext. H 1.5m max.) is best preserved at W and external bank (Wth 2.5m; ext. H 0.7m) is mainly constructed with stone. Chord measurement from NW to SE across interior measures 82m. The site originally was a large bivallate ringfort with approximate internal diameter of 85m N-S.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.