Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Lowtown (kilmeage South Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lowtown (kilmeage South Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26975, -6.83031
- SMR number
- KD013-024----
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
On top of a low spur on a moderately steep, N-facing pasture slope surrounded by tillage. A poorly preserved, oval area (int. diams. c. 45m N-S; c. 30m E-W) is defined by a narrow, hedged, inner earthen bank (Wth 1m; int H 0.4m; ext H 3m) N-E-SW which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.2m) SW-W-N, and by a broad, outer fosse (Wth 2-3m; D 1-1.4m) NE-SE-SW which is filled with old silage and straw. The interior falls gently (1m) from N-S and is planted as a lawn associated with a private dwelling house immediately to the W.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.