Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cappanargid, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappanargid
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23882, -6.97257
- SMR number
- KD017-005----
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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
Shown as a circular 'Rath' on Taylor's 1783 Map of County Kildare and on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular, enclosed copse (est. diam. c. 60m). On level pasture. The monument survives as a low, circular hillock (diam. c. 40m; H 1-2m) with no visible surface trace of an enclosing element.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.