Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moods, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moods
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.27935, -6.79233
- SMR number
- KD013-018001-
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 long and very gentle NW-facing pasture slope. A circular area (int. diam. 53m) is defined by a low, inner earthen bank (Wth 1.7m along S, where altered and hedged as a field boundary, -8.6m at N; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.6m), a shallow outer fosse (Wth 1.5-2.1m; D 0.3-0.7m) SE-SW-NNW, and part of a second, outer earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4m; H 0.2m) NE-ESE. A heavily poached gap (Wth 2.5m) in the inner bank at NE with revetting stones along its S side is the original entrance, while a second gap (Wth 2.3m) in that bank at ENE is a later feature. A possibly contemporary field boundary (KD013-018002-) abuts the monument at NNW.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.