Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Downings North, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Downings North
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.28535, -6.76190
- SMR number
- KD013-010002-
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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
Attached to the S sector of a rath (KD013-010001-). A small, poorly preserved, crescent-shaped area (dims. 35m N-S; 30m E-W) is defined by the bank of the rath from NW-N-NE and elsewhere by a low scarp (H 0.4m) except at SE where a low, earthen bank survives (Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m). The interior is heavily poached by livestock and deeply rutted by the passage of vehicles which has created a track NE-SW across the site.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.