Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Littlerath, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Littlerath
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Little Rath
- Latest-edition OS map
- Little Rath
- Coordinates
- 53.27774, -6.65181
- SMR number
- KD014-030----
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
At the NE foot of a low ridge in improved, mixed tillage and pasture. A low, circular, earthen mound (diam. 9m; H c. 1m), has a shallow depression (D 0.2-0.4m) on its upper surface, and is girdled by a shallow fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.15m), with a causeway at SE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.