Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mulgeeth, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mulgeeth
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.37572, -6.85115
- SMR number
- KD004-011----
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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
On the gentle W-facing slope of a low, pasture spur which projects W into the Bog of Allen, with a possible habitation site (KD004-010----) c. 250m to the NE. A poorly preserved circular area (int. diam. 22.5m) is defined by a very faint inner, earthen bank (Wth c. 1m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m at NE-1.7m at SW), by a shallow fosse (Wth 2.3m at E-5.8m at S; D 0.2-0.4m) and by a second, faint, outer earthen bank (Wth 1m; int H 0.4m; ext H 0.2m) at E. Although not recorded on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map it is probably a rath. Visible as being overgrown on a recent aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto 2005).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.