Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Griffinrath, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Griffinrath
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Griffin Rath
- Coordinates
- 53.35637, -6.57377
- SMR number
- KD011-009----
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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
In open, gently undulating, mixed tillage and pasture with a second rath (KD011-008----) c. 60m to the N. An oval area (int. diams. 34m N-S; 30m E-W) is defined by an overgrown, inner earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m), a fosse (Wth 5m) and a second, partially overgrown, outer earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.1m). There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 3.5m) at NW, and the interior rises gently towards the SE. Visible with overgrown enclosing elements on a recent aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto 2005).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.