Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloncumber, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloncumber
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.25439, -6.91025
- SMR number
- KD017-004----
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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 a low, gently sloped, E-W pasture ridge in an extensively cleared and now huge field, surrounded by bog NW-NE-SE. Described in 1972 as 'a roughly circular ringfort (int. diam. 36m) of platform type, surrounded by a fosse … and traces of a bank (with) an entrance on the N side' (SMR file). The monument stands raised above the surrounding ground (H 1-2m) but is completely planted with pine trees, except along the N perimeter upon which cleared field-material is dumped.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.