Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Hortland, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hortland
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.37015, -6.76574
- SMR number
- KD009-002----
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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 roughly circular enclosure (est. max. diam. c. 40m) defined by a field boundary, with a tree-covered interior. One of four enclosures (the other three being rectangular - max. dims. L c. 50m Wth c. 40m), all tree-covered and fairly regularly spaced (distances apart 100m, 100m and 200m) which form a NE-SW landscape feature-line along the hilltop, possibly associated with Newtown House c. 1400m to the S. Near the top of a long, gentle, E-facing pasture slope. A very poorly preserved, circular area (int. diam. 28m) is defined by a low scarp (H 0.2-0.4m) SSE-W-NW and is clear of tree cover. The field boundary indicated on the current OS 6-inch map (1911) running NW-SE across the site has been removed. May be the remains of a subsequently landscaped ringfort?
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.