Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cappanargid, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappanargid
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24710, -6.94052
- SMR number
- KD017-001----
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 bottom of a low, gentle, S-facing pasture slope overlooking the SW-flowing Slate River c. 200m to the S. A large, poorly preserved, sub-circular area (int. diams. 48m N-S; 45m E-W) is defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 1.8m; int H 0.4m; ext H1-1.7m) SE-SW-NNW, which is hedged as a field boundary, and by a shallow outer fosse (Wth 1-2.5m; D 0.2-1.1m). The fosse is recut as a later field drain outside the bank and later field banks radiate off the monument at SE and NW. The interior is heavily poached by livestock at W and rises gently towards a level sub-circular, central area (diams. 16m E-W; 13 m N-S).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.