Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Mulgeeth, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mulgeeth
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.36569, -6.83226
- SMR number
- KD009-001----
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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 the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (est. max. diam. c. 35m), but not recorded on the latest ed. (1911) of the map. On a moderately steep NW-facing pasture slope. The monument is no longer visible at ground level and a modern house with associated small fields/garden occupies the S area of the site.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Habitation site1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Moated site1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.