Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derrinstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrinstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.35835, -6.64463
- SMR number
- KD010-004----
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
In level pasture on a stud farm, c. 100m SW of the Lyreen River, and planted with trees as a landscaped feature. A poorly preserved sub circular area (int. diams. 47m E-W; 45m N-S) is defined by an arc of low, earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.2m) W-N-E, and by a shallow, dry, outer fosse (Wth 2.3m; D 0.6m).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.