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Ringfort - rath

Downings North, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Downings North, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Downings North
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.28567, -6.76220
SMR number
KD013-010001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Near the bottom of a short, gentle, N-facing pasture slope. A very poorly preserved, D-shaped area (diam. c. 50m E-W) with a straight W side (L c. 40m) is defined by a low scarp (H 0.4-0.8m) SE-N-E, and elsewhere by a short arc of low, intermittently gapped, earthen bank (Wth 4m; int H 0.4m; ext H 0.8m), and by a shallow, outer fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.2m) NE-E-SE. Degraded opposing gaps (Wth 2m) at N and S may be modern. The present W limits are truncated to accommodate a boithrín and farm buildings immediately outside to the SW and W which are shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map. The interior is heavily poached by livestock. An annexe (KD013-010002-) adjoins the monument at S.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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