Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curryhills, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curryhills
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Raheen
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.28693, -6.75518
- SMR number
- KD013-013----
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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
In 'Rath Avenue', a modern housing development of semi-detached bungalows on the S side of Prosperous village. Described in 1972 as a circular rath (int. diam. 36m) defined by a low, inner earthen bank, a waterlogged fosse and traces of a second, outer bank on the W side, with a possible entrance at SW and standing on flat, poorly drained pasture (SMR file). The monument is now a landscaped, subcircular area (int. diams. 45m N-S; 41m E-W) defined by a broad, flat topped, earthen bank (Wth 2.9m at S - 4m at W; Int H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1.1-1.5m) retaining a raised, waterlogged interior, with a wide, straight-sided, machine-cut looking entrance gap (Wth 3.8m) at SE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.