Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curryhills, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curryhills
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Eldons Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Eldons Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.29301, -6.74494
- SMR number
- KD013-012----
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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
On a narrow SE-facing shoulder, just off the crest of a low hill, in mixed tillage and pasture. A small, fairly well-preserved, circular area (int. diam 16m) is defined by a low, broad, flat topped, inner earthen bank (Wth 6.7-8.3m: int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext. H 1.2-1.7m), and a shallow outer fosse (Wth 2-2.7m; D 0.3m) NW-E-SW. A low earthen causeway (L 2.3m; H 0.2m) crossing the fosse at SE and a corresponding gap in the bank (Wth 2.2m) mark the original entrance, while an opposing gap (Wth 1.9m) in the bank at NW may be a later feature. The level interior is lightly poached by livestock.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.