Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Kilrathmurry, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilrathmurry
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.42008, -7.02350
- SMR number
- KD002-001----
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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
On a slight pasture rise drained to the S by a small, SW-flowing tributary of the River Boyne which flows N c. 90m to the W of the monument. A rectangular area (int. dims. L 40.7m N-S; Wth 26.5m E-W) with rounded corners, is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.2m) SE-SW, and elsewhere by a lower scarp, with a shallow outer fosse (Wth 5m) W-NE. Visible on a recent aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto 2005).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.