Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Rathcoffey Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcoffey Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.33504, -6.65969
- SMR number
- KD010-016----
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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 tillage at the E foot of a low ridge carrying Rathcoffey Castle (KD010-018001-) c. 500m to the SW. A slightly raised (H 1-1.5m), sub-circular area (int. diams. 32.1m N-S; 28.9m E-W) is defined by a low, inner earthen bank (int. H 0.3-0.5m; Wth 3m; ext. H 1.9-2.2m) NNW-E-SSE which is reduced to a scarp (av. H 1m) elsewhere, and by an outer fosse (Wth 0.8m; D 0.6-1m) which is reused as a modern drain, with plastic land-drainage pipes visible in the E and W sectors. The interior slopes gently down W-E (H 0.5m) and the E sector is disturbed and contains decaying tree stumps while low thorn and scrub is starting to establish itself in the W sector. Visible, in tillage, on a 2005 aerial photo (OSi Orthophoto)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - formal gardenunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.