Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilshanchoe, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilshanchoe
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.39060, -6.89256
- SMR number
- KD003-018----
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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 gentle S-facing pasture slope. A large, fairly well-preserved, sub-circular area (int. dims. L 59m N-S; max Wth 58m E-W) is defined by an overgrown inner earthen bank (Wth 4.8m at S-7.4m at E) NNE-SW which is reduced to a scarp (H 2.5m) elsewhere, by an overgrown fosse (Wth 4.5m at E-7.7m at W), and by a second, outer earthen bank (Wth 4.3m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 0.9m) SW-NW. There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 4m) at NE. Later field boundaries radiate off the monument at SE and W. Visible as densely overgrown on a recent aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto 2005).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.