Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Turnings Upper, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Turnings Upper
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28309, -6.61388
- SMR number
- KD014-024----
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
The monument is shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as circular area (est. max. diam. c. 70m) defined by a bank. (Also shown, as a dotted line, is a very large, outer enclosing feature (est. max. diam. c. 400m) concentric with the monument from E-N, which is of uncertain significance). On level, improved pasture. No visible surface trace of either feature survives, and a modern house with extensive outbuildings occupies part of the site.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.