Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Kilrathmurry, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilrathmurry
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Kilrathmurry Graveyard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41730, -7.00931
- SMR number
- KD003-001001-
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
In open, gently undulating pastureland. Named 'Site of Kilrathmurry Graveyard' and indicated as a rectangular area (est. dims. L c. 35m N-S; Wth c. 30m) on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map. Described in 1955 as a ringfort with two banks and an intervening fosse (SMR file). No visible surface trace of a ringfort survives, but the site may have been reused as a graveyard (KD003-001002-) and contains a possible house site (KD003-001003-).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.