Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballystanly, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballystanly
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.93542, -7.86748
- SMR number
- OF045-011----
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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 high ground in upland area. Raised circular area (diam 35m E-W) enclosed by two earth and stone banks with intervening fosse (Wth 3m). Causeway entrance (Wth. 3m) at NE. Inner bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2.2m max.) is best preserved at E while outer bank (Wth 2m) is used as a field boundary from NE through E to SW elsewhere it is destroyed.
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
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.