Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolearagh West, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolearagh West
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.30315, -6.82491
- SMR number
- KD013-001----
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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
Near the top of a short, gentle, W-facing pasture slope at the NW end of a low, narrow, NW-SE ridge, overlooking a broad expanse of bog c. 500m to the W. A large, but very poorly preserved circular area (diam c. 60m) is defined by a low scarp (H 0.4-1m) which is hedged as a roadside boundary NNE-E-SSE and which has been cut back and straightened-off along the S to allow the erection of farm sheds and outbuildings, and along the W, where a modern farm road runs. At NW, a later field bank, which is also hedged as a field boundary, may incorporate portion of an older, rath bank. The interior is completely overgrown with briar, thorn and ash.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower house1 mi
- Bawn1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrow1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.