Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockanally, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockanally
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.38771, -6.78769
- SMR number
- KD004-015----
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
Shown on Taylor's 1783 map of County Kildare as a circular enclosure. On a gentle E-facing pasture slope just off the crest of a low hill. A poorly preserved, approximately circular area (diams. 42.2m N-S; 39m E-W) is defined by a low, inner, earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; int H c. 0.3m; ext. H c. 0.4m), a fosse (Wth c. 3m; D 0.2m), and a second, faint, outer earthen bank (Wth c. 1.5m; H c. 0.2m). A shallow field drain crosses the interior (N-S) to E of centre. Faintly visible on a recent aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto, 2005).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.