Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Donaghstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donaghstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.35851, -6.61791
- SMR number
- KD010-005----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On level pasture (formerly tillage, SMR file), immediately N of a small stream. A very poorly preserved sub rectangular area (dims L 24m E-W; Wth 18m N-S) is defined by a broad but very shallow fosse (Wth 7m; D 0.1-0.2m) along the N and by a low scarp (H 0.6m) along the E. Visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP ATA 29, BDU 42) in 1967 as larger, more circular, and better-defined. An earthwork site (KD010-006----) lies c. 70m to the NW
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.