Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mylerstown (robertstown Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mylerstown (robertstown Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26751, -6.80265
- SMR number
- KD013-022----
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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
Visible on a 1970 aerial photograph (CUCAP BDH 34) as the cropmark of a fosse defining a large, roughly circular area (est. diam. c. 100m) with a possible entrance gap at E. On a gentle, W-facing pasture slope with tillage in the fields to the E. No obvious visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.