Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Donadea, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donadea
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.35369, -6.73431
- SMR number
- KD009-005----
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
At the top of a long, gentle, W-facing slope, in tillage. A fairly poorly preserved, repeatedly ploughed-over (SMR file) sub circular-shaped area (int. diams. 49m E-W; 42m N-S) is defined by a broad, inner earthen bank (Wth 7m; ext H 1.7m) with a possible entrance gap at E, and by a wide outer fosse (Wth. 7m; D 0.8m) which is overlain by a modern field bank along the S.
Cropmarks visible on Google Earth aerial imagery dating 28/06/2018 has recently indicated that this monument was a trivallate ringfort (overall ext. diam. 86m).
See attached images taken from Google Earth based on details kindly provided by Anthony Murphy
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 18 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.