Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Pitchfordstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pitchfordstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.40181, -6.70978
- SMR number
- KD005-007----
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
On a gentle N-facing slope in tillage. A large oval area (int. diams. 60m N-S ; 54.7m E-W) is defined by a low scarp (H0.6m) NW-N-E, and elsewhere by a later earthen field boundary bank and an external drain which may be a recut fosse. The featureless interior rises gently towards the S and was ploughed on the date of visit (SMR file).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.