Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Betaghstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Betaghstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.31732, -6.72177
- SMR number
- KD010-026----
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
Shown on the latest ed. (1911) of the OS 6-inch map as circular area enclosed by a fosse (est. max. diam. c. 50m) and described in 1955 as having traces of a bank at the NE. Visible on a 1968 aerial photograph (CUCAP AVO 79) as a low circular platform enclosed by a fosse. In mixed pasture and tillage and only visible as a slight rise in 1985 (SMR file).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.