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
- Not Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21299, -6.98918
- SMR number
- KD017-030----
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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
Fitzgerald (1906-8, 160) mentions that, 'a Rath called "Revarney"' is shown on Rocque's 1760 map of the Manor of Rathangan. Described in 1955 as a circular platform defined by a low bank, of which no visible surface trace survived in 1985 (SMR file). On level, improved pasture.
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.