Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathangan Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathangan Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.20903, -6.99345
- SMR number
- KD017-023----
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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 gentle S-facing pasture slope, formerly in tillage. The very poorly preserved N-half of a roughly circular area (est. diam. c. 50m) is defined by a long, low scarp (H 0.5-1m) W-N-E.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.