Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ratheeragh, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ratheeragh
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.76927, -6.73023
- SMR number
- CW013-037----
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
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Historic Monument No. HM00335, this monument was entered in the Register of Historic Monuments on the 23 August 1977. Remains indicate large ringfort, with high bank (H from outside 8-10m) and broad external fosse. (Wth 5m). Interior appears to have been almost entirely dug out for gravel. Traces of possible external bank at NE. Quarried from S and overgrown with scrub.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.