Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Bishopscourt Upper, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bishopscourt Upper
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.26571, -6.58211
- SMR number
- KD014-029----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle, SW-facing slope in tillage. Described in 1972 as a circular, tree-filled area (diam. c. 55m) defined by a slight, inner earthen bank, and a wide, water-filled fosse, with a causewayed entrance at SE. By 1985 the trees had been cleared, the land had been drained and the monument was reduced to a low, roughly circular rise in a field of barley (SMR file). The monument may have been a rath which was subsequently landscaped by the owners of Bishopscourt House to the E, on whose lands it stood. Visible as a cropmark on a 1995 aerial photo (Osi Orthophoto).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.