Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glebe (straffan Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glebe (straffan Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31160, -6.61820
- SMR number
- KD014-014----
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 level, wet pasture. A circular area (int. diams. 50m E-W; 38.5m N-S) is defined by a low, broad, inner earthen bank (Wth 7.5m; int H 0.4m; ext H 0.5m) which is quarried-out E-SE and heavily poached by livestock at S, a shallow fosse (Wth 1m at W-3.4m at S; D 0.2m at S-1m at W), and traces of a second, poorly preserved, outer earthen bank (Wth 1.2m; H 0.2m) NE-ESE. The interior has been extensively quarried out leaving a central, shallow, rectangular depression (dims. L 15m NE-SW; max Wth 14.5m; D 0.5m), and smaller depressions at NE, ESE and SSE. An ESB pole stands inside the inner bank at S.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.