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Ringfort - rath

Drehid, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Drehid, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Drehid
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.37017, -6.88543
SMR number
KD008-011001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At the top of a very long and gentle S-facing tillage slope c. 100m SW of the confluence of the E-flowing Kilcooney River with the N-flowing Fear English River, with a vast expanse of bog beyond to the E. An oval area (ext. diams. 43m N-S; 24m E-W) is defined by a low, grass-covered, inner earthen bank (Wth 4.3-5.4m; int H 0.4m; ext. H 0.9m) NNW-NE-SE, which has been reduced to a scarp (H 0.9m) elsewhere, and by an outer fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.4m) which is only visible NNW-E-SE and into which field-cleared stones have been dumped. In 1972, an entrance was noted at the S which is no longer visible, and the interior of the monument was uneven and undulating, with a depression running along the inside of the inner bank interpreted as possibly indicating a souterrain (KD008-011002-), (SMR file). The interior is now level pasture.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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