Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ardrass Lower, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardrass Lower
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32950, -6.58102
- SMR number
- KD011-005----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a short, gentle, E-facing pasture slope. Visible on aerial photographs (GSI 467, 468) as the cropmark of a fosse enclosing an oval area (est. max. diams. c. 70m N-S; c. 40m E-W), but not visible at ground level. The morphology and siting suggest that it may have been a ringfort, some sub-surface remains of which may survive intact.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.