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
- 53.29505, -6.82587
- SMR number
- KD013-002----
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
Near the top of a very gentle SW-facing slope in Woodlands Golf Course, overlooking a broad expanse of bog c. 100m to the W. A poorly preserved, slightly raised, sub circular area (int. diams. 23.7m E-W; 21.5m N-S) is defined by a broad, low earthen bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m at S-1.6m at N (upslope)) N-E-SW, which is overgrown with thorn bushes, and elsewhere by a low scarp (H 1.4m) with traces of a shallow, outer fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.3m) in which plastic land-drainage pipe has been laid. Externally, a low berm (Wth 3.4m; H 0.2m) abuts the monument NE-E-SE and appears to be a landscape feature of the golf course. In 1972, a possible entrance was noted at NW (SMR file), but is no longer visible.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.