Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardrass Upper, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardrass Upper
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32337, -6.58404
- SMR number
- KD010-025----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On level pasture at the S-foot of St Patrick's Hill (OD 308 feet). A very poorly preserved circular area (diam. c. 38m) is defined by an inner earthen bank (Wth 4m; int H 0.8m; ext H 1.1m) and outer fosse (Wth 0.7m; D 0.4m) SE-W, and by a low scarp (H 0.4m) NE-SE. A later earthen field bank bisects the interior ESE-WNW, off which a second field bank runs perpendicularly NNE across the interior, while a third field bank runs SSW off the ringfort's bank at S. The interior contains a cattle-crush to S of centre.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.